2 For what portion of God is there from above and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high

3 Is not destruction to the wicked and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity

4 Doth not he see my ways and count all my steps

5 If I have walked with vanity or if my foot hath hasted to deceit

6 Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity

7 If my step hath turned out of the way and mine heart walked after mine eyes and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands

8 Then let me sow and let another eat yea let my offspring be rooted out

9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door

10 Then let my wife grind unto another and let others bow down upon her

11 For this is an heinous crime yea it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges

12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction and would root out all mine increase

13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant when they contended with me

14 What then shall I do when God riseth up and when he visiteth what shall I answer him

15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him and did not one fashion us in the womb

16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail

17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof

18 For from my youth he was brought up with me as with a father and I have guided her from my mother's womb

19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing or any poor without covering

20 If his loins have not blessed me and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep

21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless when I saw my help in the gate

22 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade and mine arm be broken from the bone

23 For destruction from God was a terror to me and by reason of his highness I could not endure

24 If I have made gold my hope or have said to the fine gold Thou art my confidence

25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great and because mine hand had gotten much

26 If I beheld the sun when it shined or the moon walking in brightness

27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed or my mouth hath kissed my hand

28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge for I should have denied the God that is above

29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me or lifted up myself when evil found him

30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul

31 If the men of my tabernacle said not Oh that we had of his flesh we cannot be satisfied

32 The stranger did not lodge in the street but I opened my doors to the traveller

33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom

34 Did I fear a great multitude or did the contempt of families terrify me that I kept silence and went not out of the door

35 Oh that one would hear me behold my desire is that the Almighty would answer me and that mine adversary __ had written a book

36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder and bind it as a crown to me

37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps as a prince would I go near unto him

38 If my land cry against me or that the furrows likewise thereof complain

39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life

40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat and cockle instead of barley The words of Job are ended