31 I made a covenant with mine eyes;
why then should I think upon a maid?
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.