Lexham English Bible

Job 31:24-31 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

24. “If I have made gold my trust, or I have called fine gold my security,

25. if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great or because my hand found a fortune,

26. if I looked at the sun when it shone or at the moon moving in splendor,

27. and I was secretly enticed, and my hand threw them a kiss,

28. this also is an iniquity to be judged, for I have deceived God above.

29. “If I have rejoiced at the ruin of the one who hated me or have exulted when evil overtook him—

30. no, I have not allowed my mouth to sin, to ask his life with a curse.

31. Have the people of my tent not said, ‘O that someone had not been satisfied with his meat’?