Job 31 (NET)

Job 31:1¹“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I entertain thoughts against a virgin?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 1:14-15Matt 5:28-291 John 2:16Ps 119:37Prov 6:252 Sam 11:2-4Prov 4:25Gen 6:2Prov 23:31-33

Job 31:2²What then would be one’s lot from God above, one’s heritage from the Almighty on high?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 20:29Heb 13:4Job 27:13

Job 31:3³Is it not misfortune for the unjust, and disaster for those who work iniquity?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 21:30Job 34:221 Thess 5:32 Pet 2:12 Thess 1:9Isa 28:21Jude 1:7Matt 7:13Prov 1:27Prov 10:29

Job 31:4⁴Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 34:212 Chr 16:9Prov 5:21Job 14:16Jer 32:19Prov 15:3Jer 16:17Ps 139:1-3Gen 16:13Heb 4:13

Job 31:5⁵If I have walked in falsehood, and if my foot has hastened to deceit—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 12:11Ps 44:20-21Ezek 13:8Jer 2:5Mic 2:11Ps 12:2Ps 4:2Ps 7:3-5

Job 31:6⁶let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 5:27Ps 7:8-91 Sam 2:3Isa 26:7Matt 7:23Job 27:5-6Job 6:2Josh 22:22Mic 6:11Prov 16:11

Job 31:7⁷If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 15:39Eccl 11:9Matt 5:29Ezek 14:3Ezek 14:7Ezek 6:9Isa 33:15Job 23:11Ps 101:3Ps 44:20-21

Job 31:8⁸then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 26:16Mic 6:15Deut 28:38Deut 28:30-33Deut 28:51Job 15:30Job 18:19Job 20:18Job 24:6Job 5:4-5

Job 31:9⁹If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:4Eccl 7:26Judg 16:5Hos 7:4Jer 5:8Job 24:15-16Neh 13:26Prov 2:16-19Prov 22:14Prov 6:25

Job 31:10¹⁰then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men commit adultery with her.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 8:102 Sam 12:11Isa 47:2Deut 28:30Exod 11:5Hos 4:13-14Matt 24:41

Job 31:11¹¹For I would have committed a shameful act, an iniquity to be judged.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 20:10Deut 22:22-24Job 31:28Gen 38:24Exod 20:14Ezek 16:38Gen 20:9Gen 26:10Prov 6:29-33Gen 39:9

Job 31:12¹²For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, and it would uproot all my harvest.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 6:27Jer 5:7-9Heb 13:4Job 15:30Job 20:28Job 26:6Mal 3:5Prov 3:33

Job 31:13¹³“If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servants when they disputed with me,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 4:1Deut 15:12-15Deut 24:14-15Eph 6:9Exod 21:20-21Exod 21:26-27Jer 34:14-17Lev 25:43Lev 25:46

Job 31:14¹⁴then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 2:13Ps 10:12-15Ps 44:21Ps 9:12Ps 9:19Rom 3:19Zech 2:13Hos 9:7Isa 10:3Job 10:2

Job 31:15¹⁵Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 14:31Job 34:19Mal 2:10Prov 22:2Job 10:8-12Isa 58:7Job 10:3Neh 5:5Ps 139:14-16

Job 31:16¹⁶If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 15:7-10Isa 38:14Acts 11:29Deut 28:32Gal 2:10Job 20:19Job 22:7-9Job 5:16Lam 4:17Luke 16:21

Job 31:17¹⁷If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans —Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 3:17Acts 4:32Deut 15:11Deut 15:14Ezek 18:16Ezek 18:7Jas 1:27Job 22:7Job 29:12-16John 13:29

Job 31:18¹⁸but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow —Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Job 31:19¹⁹If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without a coat,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 22:61 John 3:182 Chr 28:15Acts 9:39Isa 58:7Jas 2:16Job 24:4Job 29:13Luke 3:11Matt 25:36

Job 31:20²⁰whose heart did not bless me as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 24:13Job 29:11

Job 31:21²¹if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 22:9Job 29:12Ezek 22:7Jer 5:28Job 24:9Job 6:27Mic 2:1-2Mic 7:3Prov 23:10-11

Job 31:22²²then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let my arm be broken off at the socket.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 31:10Job 31:40Job 38:15Josh 22:22-23Ps 137:6Ps 7:4-5

Job 31:23²³For the calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I was powerless.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 13:11Ps 119:1202 Cor 5:11Isa 13:6Ps 76:7Gen 39:9Job 20:23Job 21:20Job 40:9Job 42:5-6

Job 31:24²⁴“If I have put my confidence in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security!’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 8:12-14Prov 11:28Ps 49:6-7Ps 52:71 Tim 6:101 Tim 6:17Luke 12:15Prov 10:15Prov 30:9Ps 49:17

Job 31:25²⁵if I have rejoiced because of the extent of my wealth, or because of the great wealth my hand had gained,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 62:10Dan 4:30Deut 8:17-18Esth 5:11Ezek 28:5Hab 1:16Hos 12:8Isa 10:13-14Jer 9:23Luke 12:19

Job 31:26²⁶if I looked at the sun when it was shining, and the moon advancing as a precious thing,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 8:16Deut 4:19Deut 17:32 Kgs 23:112 Kgs 23:5Jer 44:17Jer 8:2Deut 11:16Gen 1:16-18Ps 8:3-4

Job 31:27²⁷so that my heart was secretly enticed, and my hand threw them a kiss from my mouth,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 13:6Deut 11:161 Kgs 19:18Hos 13:2Isa 44:20Ps 2:12Rom 1:21Rom 1:28

Job 31:28²⁸then this also would be iniquity to be judged, for I would have been false to God above.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 17:2-7Job 31:11Ps 50:6Deut 17:9Gen 18:25Job 23:7Job 9:15Josh 24:23Josh 24:27Judg 11:27

Job 31:29²⁹If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 24:17-18Prov 17:5Obad 1:12Ps 35:13-14Ps 35:25-262 Sam 1:122 Sam 16:5-82 Sam 4:10-11

Job 31:30³⁰I have not even permitted my mouth to sin by asking for his life through a curse—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 3:9Rom 12:141 Pet 2:22-23Exod 23:4-5Jas 3:9-10Matt 5:22Matt 5:43-44Eccl 5:2Eccl 5:6Jas 3:6

Job 31:31³¹if the members of my household have never said, ‘If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job’s meat!’—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 24:101 Sam 24:41 Sam 26:82 Sam 16:9-102 Sam 19:21-22Jer 40:15-16Job 19:22Job 22:7Luke 22:50-51Luke 9:54-55

Job 31:32³²But no stranger had to spend the night outside, for I opened my doors to the traveler —Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 13:2Gen 19:2-3Judg 19:20-211 Pet 4:9Isa 58:7Matt 25:35Rom 12:131 Tim 5:10Job 31:17-18Judg 19:15

Job 31:33³³if I have covered my transgressions as men do, by hiding iniquity in my heart,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 28:13Acts 5:8Gen 3:12Hos 6:71 John 1:8-10Josh 7:11Gen 3:7-8

Job 31:34³⁴because I was terrified of the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I remained silent and would not go outdoors—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 23:2Prov 29:252 Cor 5:16Amos 5:11-13Esth 4:11Esth 4:14Exod 32:27Jer 38:16Jer 38:19Jer 38:4-5

Job 31:35³⁵“If only I had someone to hear me! Here is my signature — let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment that my accuser had written.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 13:21-22Job 40:4-5Job 13:24Job 13:3Job 17:3Job 19:23-24Job 19:7Job 23:3-7Job 33:6Job 35:14

Job 31:36³⁶Surely I would wear it proudly on my shoulder, I would bind it on me like a crown;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 22:22Exod 28:12Isa 62:3Job 29:14Phil 4:1

Job 31:37³⁷I would give him an accounting of my steps; like a prince I would draw near to him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 13:15Eph 3:12Heb 4:15-161 John 3:19-21Gen 32:28Job 1:3Job 14:16Job 29:25Job 42:3-6Job 9:3

Job 31:38³⁸“If my land cried out against me and all its furrows wept together,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hab 2:11Jas 5:4Job 20:27Ps 65:13

Job 31:39³⁹if I have eaten its produce without paying, or caused the death of its owners,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 21:19Jas 5:41 Kgs 21:13-16Ezek 22:12-13Ezek 22:6Gen 4:12Isa 26:21Prov 1:19

Job 31:40⁴⁰then let thorns sprout up in place of wheat, and in place of barley, noxious weeds.” The words of Job are ended.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 3:17-18Isa 7:23Mal 1:3Ps 72:20Zeph 2:9