Job Capítulo 31

31 : 1 I made a covenant with my eyes. How then should I look upon a virgin?

31 : 2 For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

31 : 3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

31 : 4 Does he not see my ways, and number all my steps?

31 : 5 If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hastened to deceit

31 : 6 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

31 : 7 if my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands,

31 : 8 then let me sow, and let another eat, yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

31 : 9 If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

31 : 10 then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her.

31 : 11 For that is a heinous crime, yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

31 : 12 For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

31 : 13 If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me,

31 : 14 what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him?

31 : 15 Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

31 : 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

31 : 17 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

31 : 18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and her I have guided from my mother's womb);

31 : 19 if I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

31 : 20 if his loins have not blessed me, and if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

31 : 21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

31 : 22 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

31 : 23 For calamity from God is a terror to me, and I can do nothing because of his majesty.

31 : 24 If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, Thou are my confidence;

31 : 25 if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

31 : 26 if I have beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,

31 : 27 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand

31 : 28 (this also is an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have denied the God that is above);

31 : 29 if I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

31 : 30 (yea, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

31 : 31 if the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one who has not been filled with his food?

31 : 32 (the sojourner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

31 : 33 if like Adam I have covered my transgressions by hiding my iniquity in my bosom

31 : 34 because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me so that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door-

31 : 35 O that I had someone to hear me (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me), and that I had the indictment which my adversary has written!

31 : 36 Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder. I would bind it to me as a crown.

31 : 37 I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him as a prince.

31 : 38 If my land cries out against me, and the furrows of it weep together;

31 : 39 if I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners of it to lose their lives,

31 : 40 let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.