New Living Translation

Job 31:8-20 New Living Translation (NLT)

8. then let someone else eat the crops I have planted.Let all that I have planted be uprooted.

9. “If my heart has been seduced by a woman,or if I have lusted for my neighbor’s wife,

10. then let my wife serve another man;let other men sleep with her.

11. For lust is a shameful sin,a crime that should be punished.

12. It is a fire that burns all the way to hell.It would wipe out everything I own.

13. “If I have been unfair to my male or female servantswhen they brought their complaints to me,

14. how could I face God?What could I say when he questioned me?

15. For God created both me and my servants.He created us both in the womb.

16. “Have I refused to help the poor,or crushed the hopes of widows?

17. Have I been stingy with my foodand refused to share it with orphans?

18. No, from childhood I have cared for orphans like a father,and all my life I have cared for widows.

19. Whenever I saw the homeless without clothesand the needy with nothing to wear,

20. did they not praise mefor providing wool clothing to keep them warm?