1. I’ve made a covenant with my eyes;how could I look at a virgin?
2. What is God’s portion for me from above,the Almighty’s inheritance from on high?
3. Isn’t it disaster for the wicked,destruction for workers of iniquity?
4. Doesn’t he see my ways,count all my steps?
5. If I have walked with fraudsor my feet have hurried to deceit,
6. let him weigh me on accurate scales;let God know my integrity.
7. If my step has turned from the way,if my heart has followed my eyesor a blemish has clung to my hands,
8. then let me sow and another reap;let my offspring be uprooted.
9. If my heart has been drawn to a womanand I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,
10. then may my wife grind for anotherand others kneel over her;
11. for that’s a crime;it’s a punishable offense;
12. indeed, it’s a fire that consumes to the underworld,uprooting all my harvest.
13. If I’ve rejected the just cause of my male or female servantwhen they contended with me,
14. what could I do when God rises;when he requires an account, what could I answer?
15. Didn’t the one who made me in the belly make them;didn’t the same one fashion us in the womb?
16. If I have denied what the poor wanted,made a widow’s eyes tired,
17. eaten my morsel alone,and not shared any with an orphan(
18. for from my youth I raised the orphan as a father,and from my mother’s womb I led the widow);
19. if I ever saw someone dying without clothes, the needy naked;