Book of Job - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 847
The Psalms, Solomon and Sacred Writers
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]OB.30--30And mate with the daughters of woe lMy blackened skin geels off in strips,And my bones are burnt up y the hear,And my harp has become to me grief,And my Bute as the sobbing of tears!
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Yet a, treaty I made with my eyesThat I never would leok on a maid;Else what part could I have in HIGH GOD,Or share in th' ALMIGHTY above?Do not the depraved meet distress,And to practise such vices estrange?Would He not have looked on my ways,And reckoned up every step?Yet if I have walked with the vileAnd my footsteps have run to seduce,Let,H1M weigh mein scales that are just;Then Gon will acknowledge my truth!If my eyes have turned towards that road,And my heart has gone after my eyes,And defilement has stuck to my hand,Let me sow what another will eat,And my crops be pulled up by the roots!lf my heart was seducing a wife,lf I watched at the door of my friend,For another then let my wife grind,And strangers be lying with her!For that is a cowardly crimeAnd a wrong for the judges to brand,And a fire, consuming to Hell,Which wouldroot up the whole I produced.If I refused right to my slave,Or my waitress, disputing with me,Then what could I do when GOD rose,And when He enquired, what say?He formed them in the breast like myself,And constructed alike in the womb.If I turned from the plea of the poor,Or the eyes of the widow made fail ;If I ate of my morsel alone,And the orphan shared not of the same;Like a father I nourished his youth ;Her, I helped from my own mother’s breastIf I looked on a tramp without clothes,Or the wretched without any cloak;If his joints were not thankful to me_When warmed by the fleece of my sheep;If I raised up my hand on the weak,When I looked on my power in the Court;Let my shoulder fall off from its blade,And my arm at its socket be broke!For the reverence of Gon was on me,And I would not resist His decrees.lf my trust I have placed in my gold;If glad that my wealth was so greatAnd that treasure was found by my hand ;If I looked on the sun when it shone,Or on the bright moon in her walk ;And in secret my heart was seduced,And my hand I have kissed to her face,That also I knew to be wrong,A denial of Gon the SUPREME!847IGI II2*3rt182)2226
