Integrity, Resistance To Temptation, ~heidi

Job 31:1

¹ I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

Job 31:5

⁵ If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

Job 31:6

⁶ Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

Job 31:7

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

⁸ Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

Job 31:9

⁹ If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

Job 31:10

¹⁰ Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

Job 31:11

¹¹ For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

Job 31:12

¹² For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

Job 31:13

¹³ If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

Job 31:14

¹⁴ What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

Job 31:15

¹⁵ Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

Job 31:16

¹⁶ If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Job 31:17

¹⁷ Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

Job 31:19

¹⁹ If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

Job 31:20

²⁰ If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

Job 31:21

²¹ If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

Job 31:22

²² Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

Job 31:23

²³ For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

Job 31:24

²⁴ If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

Job 31:25

²⁵ If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

Job 31:26

²⁶ If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

Job 31:27

²⁷ And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

Job 31:28

²⁸ This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

Job 31:29

²⁹ If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

Job 31:30

³⁰ Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

Job 31:31

³¹ If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

Job 31:32

³² The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.

Job 31:33

³³ If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

Job 31:34

³⁴ Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

Job 31:38

³⁸ If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

Job 31:39

³⁹ If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

Job 31:40

⁴⁰ Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Psalms 73:2

² But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

Psalms 73:3

³ For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalms 73:4

⁴ For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

Psalms 73:5

⁵ They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

Psalms 73:6

⁶ Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

Psalms 73:7

⁷ Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

Psalms 73:8

⁸ They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

Psalms 73:9

⁹ They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

Psalms 73:10

¹⁰ Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

Psalms 73:11

¹¹ And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

Psalms 73:12

¹² Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

Psalms 73:13

¹³ Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

Psalms 73:14

¹⁴ For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

Psalms 73:15

¹⁵ If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

Psalms 73:16

¹⁶ When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

Psalms 73:17

¹⁷ Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.

Psalms 73:18

¹⁸ Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

Psalms 73:19

¹⁹ How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

Psalms 73:20

²⁰ As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

Psalms 73:21

²¹ Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

Psalms 73:22

²² So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

~heidi

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