1. I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?
2. For what would have been my portion of +God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?
3. Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?
4. Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?
5. If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit,
6. (Let me be weighed in an even balance, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)
7. If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;
8. Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.
9. If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,
10. Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
11. For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity to be judged by the judges: