Job 31:1-13
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1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
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2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
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3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
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4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
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5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
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6 Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
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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;
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8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
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9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
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10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
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11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
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12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
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13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;