{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Job",
 "chapter": 31,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?"
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?"
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?"
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;"
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "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;"
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;"
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;"
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?"
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?"
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;"
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;"
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)"
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;"
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;"
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:"
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;"
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;"
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;"
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:"
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above."
  },
  {
   "v": 29,
   "t": "If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:"
  },
  {
   "v": 30,
   "t": "Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul."
  },
  {
   "v": 31,
   "t": "If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied."
  },
  {
   "v": 32,
   "t": "The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller."
  },
  {
   "v": 33,
   "t": "If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:"
  },
  {
   "v": 34,
   "t": "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?"
  },
  {
   "v": 35,
   "t": "Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book."
  },
  {
   "v": 36,
   "t": "Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me."
  },
  {
   "v": 37,
   "t": "I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him."
  },
  {
   "v": 38,
   "t": "If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;"
  },
  {
   "v": 39,
   "t": "If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:"
  },
  {
   "v": 40,
   "t": "Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended."
  }
 ],
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}