Job 31

Job · Chapter 31

Job 31:15

1I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?2For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?4Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;6Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.7If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;8Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.9If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;10Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.11For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.12For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.13If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;14What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;18(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:22Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.23For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.24If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;25If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;26If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;27And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:28This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:30Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.31If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.32The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:34Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.36Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.38If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:40Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

King James Version (1769)

Other translations

VerseKJVBSBASV
15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

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Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
¿ notהֲֽ֝לֹא־haLo'-H3808
not

לֹא (lo) 1) not, no 1a) not (with verb-absolute prohibition) 1b) not (with modifier-negation) 1c) nothing (subst) 1d) without (with particle) 1e) before (of time) Aramaic equivalent: la (לָא "not" H3809)

in the bellyבַ֭בֶּטֶןVA-be-tenH0990H
belly: abdomen

בֶּ֫טֶן (be.ten) : abdomen 1) belly, womb, body 1a) belly, abdomen 1a1) as seat of hunger 1a2) as seat of mental faculties 1a3) of depth of Sheol (fig.) 1b) womb

[the one who] made meעֹשֵׂ֣נִי'o-SE-niH6213H
to make

עֲבַד (a.vad) 1) to make, do 1a)(P'al) 1a1) to make, create 1a2) to do, perform 1b) (Ithp'al) 1b1) to be made into 1b2) to be done, be wrought, be performed, be executed, be carried out

did he make himעָשָׂ֑הוּ'a-SA-huH6213H
to make

עֲבַד (a.vad) 1) to make, do 1a)(P'al) 1a1) to make, create 1a2) to do, perform 1b) (Ithp'al) 1b1) to be made into 1b2) to be done, be wrought, be performed, be executed, be carried out

and did prepare us? heוַ֝יְכֻנֶ֗נּוּvay-khu-NE-nuH3559INo entry
in the wombבָּרֶ֥חֶםba-RE-chemH7358
womb

רַחַם (ra.cham) womb Another spelling of re.chem (רֶ֫חֶם "womb" H7358)

oneאֶחָֽד׃'e-CHADH0259
one

אֶחָד (e.chad) 1) one (number) 1a) one (number) 1b) each, every 1c) a certain 1d) an (indefinite article) 1e) only, once, once for all 1f) one...another, the one...the other, one after another, one by one 1g) first 1h) eleven (in combination), eleventh (ordinal)

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.