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Job 31:1-12

What meaning of the job 31:1-12 in the Bible?

What does Job 31:1-12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.

  • Job 31:1

    I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

  • Job 31:2

    For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

  • Job 31:3

    Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

  • Job 31:4

    Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

  • Job 31:5

    If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

  • Job 31:6

    Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

  • Job 31:7

    If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

  • Job 31:8

    Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

  • Job 31:9

    If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

  • Job 31:10

    Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

  • Job 31:11

    For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

  • Job 31:12

    For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

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