Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Job 31:1-12 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

1. I promised myselfnever to stare with desireat a young woman.

2. God All-Powerful punishesmen who do that.

3. In fact, God sends disasteron all who sin,

4. and he keeps a close watchon everything I do.

5. I am not dishonest or deceitful,

6. and I beg God to provemy innocence.

7. If I have disobeyed himor even wanted to,

8. then others can eat my harvestand uproot my crops.

9. If I have desired someone's wifeand chased after her,

10. then let some strangersteal my wife from me.

11. If I took someone's wife,it would be a horrible crime,

12. sending me to destructionand my crops to the flames.