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Job 31:2

Verse 2 of 40. The 31st of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

1“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

2For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

3Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

4Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

5“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

6(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.