Revised Version 1885

Job 31:8-27 Revised Version 1885 (RV1885)

8. Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

9. If mine heart have been enticed unto a woman, and 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 that were an heinous crime; yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

12. For it is a fire that consumeth unto 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 alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

18. (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have been her guide from my mother's womb;)

19. If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no 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, because I saw my help in the gate:

22. Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

23. For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I could do nothing.

24. If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

25. If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

26. If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

27. And my heart hath been secretly enticed, and my mouth hath kissed my hand: