1. I MADE a covenant with mine eyes; how then should I look upon a maid?
2. For what is the portion of God from above, and the heritage of the Almighty from on high?
3. Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
4. Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?
5. If I have walked with vanity, and my foot hath hasted to deceit;
6. (Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity;)
7. If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any spot hath cleaved to mine hands:
8. Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
9. If mine heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbour's door:
10. Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
11. For that were an heinous crime; yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:
12. For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
13. If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me: