Job 31 v 9–22

2026-09-29 (Rebuilding Is Not Always Wise) · Job 31 v 1–8

9“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,

10then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

11For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;

12for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

13“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,

14what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

15Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t 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,

17or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

18(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);

19if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

20if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;

21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

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