1. I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?
2. For what would have been my portion of +God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?
3. Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?
4. Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?
5. If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit,
6. (Let me be weighed in an even balance, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)
7. If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;
8. Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.
9. If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,
10. Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
11. For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity to be judged by the judges:
12. For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
13. If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,
14. What then should I do when ·God riseth up? and if he visited, what should 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 caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
17. Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,
18. (For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the widow from my mother's womb;)
19. If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;
20. If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;
21. If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate: