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"I have made a covenant with my eyes; Why then should I look upon a young woman?
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For what is the allotment of God from above, And the inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
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Is it not destruction for the wicked, And disaster for the workers of iniquity?
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Does He not see my ways, And count all my steps?
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"If I have walked with falsehood, Or if my foot has hastened to deceit,
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Let me be weighed on honest scales, That God may know my integrity.
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If my step has turned from the way, Or my heart walked after my eyes, Or if any spot adheres to my hands,
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Then let me sow, and another eat; Yes, let my harvest be rooted out.
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"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, Or if I have lurked at my neighbor's door,
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Then let my wife grind for another, And let others bow down over her.
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For that would be wickedness; Yes, it would be iniquity deserving of judgment.
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For that would be a fire that consumes to destruction, And would root out all my increase.
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"If I have despised the cause of my male or female servant When they complained against me,
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What then shall I do when God rises up? When He punishes, how shall I answer Him?
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Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?
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"If I have kept the poor from their desire, Or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
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Or eaten my morsel by myself, So that the fatherless could not eat of it
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(But from my youth I reared him as a father, And from my mother's womb I guided the widow);