---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Job from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 31
verse_count: 40
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Job, chap. 31, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Job 31

**1** I MADE a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
**2** For what portion of God is therefrom above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
**3** Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
**4** Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
**5** If I have walked with vanity, or if 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 blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
**8** Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
**9** If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if 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 this is a heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
**12** For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
**13** If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me;
**14** What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
**15** Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
**16** If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
**17** Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
**18** (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
**19** If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
**20** If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
**21** If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
**22** Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
**23** For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
**24** If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
**25** If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
**26** If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
**27** And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand;
**28** This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge; for I should have denied the God that is above.
**29** If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;
**30** (Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.)
**31** If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
**32** The stranger did not lodge in the street; but I opened my doors to the' traveller.
**33** If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom;
**34** Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
**35** Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
**36** Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
**37** I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
**38** If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
**39** If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life;
**40** Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.