Job 31:2 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“For what portion of God {is there} from above? and {what} inheritance of the Almighty from on high?”

Job 31:2

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I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

For what portion of God {is there} from above? and {what} inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

{Is} not destruction to the wicked? and a strange {punishment} to the workers of iniquity?

Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

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Job 31:1

"I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?"

Job 31:3

"{Is} not destruction to the wicked? and a strange {punishment} to the workers of iniquity?"

Job 31:4

"Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?"

Job 31:5

"If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;"

Job 31:6

"Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. {Let...: Heb. Let him weigh me in balances of justice}"

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