1<\/sup>I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit:<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Then let me sow and let another eat: and let my offspring be rooted out.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door:<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>(For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb :)<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence:<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>If I beheld the sun when it shined, and the moon going in brightness:<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth:<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God.<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul.<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?<\/span> <\/p>\n 32<\/sup>The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.<\/span> <\/p>\n 33<\/sup>If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.<\/span> <\/p>\n 34<\/sup>If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and I have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door.<\/span> <\/p>\n 35<\/sup>Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,<\/span> <\/p>\n 36<\/sup>That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?<\/span> <\/p>\n 37<\/sup>At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.<\/span> <\/p>\n 38<\/sup>If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn:<\/span> <\/p>\n 39<\/sup>If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof:<\/span> <\/p>\n 40<\/sup>Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.<\/span> <\/p>\n