1. “I made a covenant with my eyesnot to look with lust at a young woman.
2. For what has God above chosen for us?What is our inheritance from the Almighty on high?
3. Isn’t it calamity for the wickedand misfortune for those who do evil?
4. Doesn’t he see everything I doand every step I take?
5. “Have I lied to anyoneor deceived anyone?
6. Let God weigh me on the scales of justice,for he knows my integrity.
7. If I have strayed from his pathway,or if my heart has lusted for what my eyes have seen,or if I am guilty of any other sin,
8. then let someone else eat the crops I have planted.Let all that I have planted be uprooted.
9. “If my heart has been seduced by a woman,or if I have lusted for my neighbor’s wife,
10. then let my wife serve another man;let other men sleep with her.
11. For lust is a shameful sin,a crime that should be punished.
12. It is a fire that burns all the way to hell.It would wipe out everything I own.
13. “If I have been unfair to my male or female servantswhen they brought their complaints to me,
14. how could I face God?What could I say when he questioned me?
15. For God created both me and my servants.He created us both in the womb.
16. “Have I refused to help the poor,or crushed the hopes of widows?
17. Have I been stingy with my foodand refused to share it with orphans?