31:1 “I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I pay attention to a virgin?
31:2 What then would be one’s lot from God above, one’s heritage from the Almighty on high?
31:3 Is it not misfortune for the unjust, and disaster for those who work iniquity?
31:4 Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?
31:5 If I have walked in falsehood, and if my foot has hastened to deceit —
31:6 let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.
31:7 If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,
31:8 then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.
31:9 If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,
31:10 then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men have sexual relations with her.
31:11 For I would have committed a shameful act, an iniquity to be judged.
31:12 For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, and it would uproot all my harvest.
31:13 “If I have disregarded the right of my male servant or my female servants when they disputed with me,
31:14 then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?
31:15 Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?
31:16 If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
31:17 If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans —