Job 31
1 “I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
A covenant I made to eyes my and what? will I look carefully on a virgin.
2 For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?
And what? - [is] [the] portion of God above and [the] inheritance of [the] Almighty from high places.
3 Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
¿ Not [does] calamity [belong] to an evil-doer and misfortune to [those who] do wickedness.
4 Does He not see my ways and count my every step?
¿ Not he does he see ways my and all steps my does he count?
5 If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,
If I have walked with falsehood and it has made haste to deceit foot my.
6 let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
Let him weigh me in balances of righteousness and let him acknowledge God integrity my.
7 If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,
If it turned aside step my from the way and after eyes my it has gone heart my and to hands my it has stuck a blemish.
8 then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.
Let me sow and another let him eat and produce my let them be rooted up.
9 If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,
If it has been deceived heart my on a woman and at [the] doorway of neighbor my I have lain in wait.
10 then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.
Let her grind for another wife my and over her let them bow down! others.
11 For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.
For (that *Q(K)*) [is] wickedness (and that *Q(k)*) [is] iniquity judges.
12 For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.
For [is] a fire that [which] to Abaddon it will devour and all produce my it will root up.
13 If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,
If I rejected [the] cause of male servant my and female servant my in complaint their with me.
14 what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account?
And what? will I do if he will arise God and if he will visit what? will I respond to him.
15 Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?
¿ Not in the belly [the one who] made me did he make him and did prepare us? he in the womb one.
16 If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,
If I withheld any of [the] desire of poor [people] and [the] eyes of a widow I caused to fail.
17 if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—
And I may eat morsel of bread my to alone me and not he ate a fatherless one some of it.
18 though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—
For since youth my he grew up with me like a father and from [the] womb of mother my I guided her.
19 if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,
If I saw [one who] was perishing because not clothing and not covering [belonged] to the needy [person].
20 if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,
If not they blessed me (loins his *Q(K)*) and from [the] fleece of lambs my he warmed himself.
21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
If I brandished on a fatherless one hand my for I saw in the gate help my.
22 then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.
Shoulder my from its shoulder let it fall and arm my from arm its let it be broken.
23 For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.
For [was] a fear to me calamity of God and from majesty his not I am able.
24 If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,
If I have made gold confidence my and to pure gold I have said security my.
25 if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,
If I rejoiced for [was] great wealth my and for much it had found hand my.
26 if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,
If I saw a light that it shone and [the] moon splendid [was] going.
27 so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
And it was gullible in secrecy heart my and it kissed hand my mouth my.
28 this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.
Also that [is] iniquity calling for judgment for I denied God above.
29 If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—
If I rejoiced in [the] disaster of [one who] hated me and I excited myself if it had found him calamity.
30 I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse—
And not I have permitted to sin palate my by asking for by a curse life his.
31 if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—
If not they have said [the] men of tent my who? will he give from meat his not [one who] is satisfied.
32 but no stranger had to lodge on the street, for my door has been open to the traveler—
In the street not he passed [the] night a sojourner doors my to the path I opened.
33 if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,
If I have concealed like Adam transgressions my by hiding in bosom my iniquity my.
34 because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—
For I feared - a multitude great and [the] contempt of clans it caused to be dismayed me and I was silent not I went outside [the] door.
35 (Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
Who? will he give [will belong] to me - [one who] listens to me here! mark my [the] Almighty let him answer me and a document [which] he had written [the] person of case my.
36 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder and wear it like a crown.
If not on shoulder my I will carry it I will tie on it a crown to myself.
37 I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.)—
[the] number of Steps my I will tell to him like a chief I will approach him.
38 if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,
If on me land my it cried out and together furrows its they wept!
39 if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
If produce its I have eaten not money and [the] life of owners its I have caused to breathe out.
40 then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.
In place of wheat - let it come forth thorn[s] and in place of barley foul weed[s] they are finished [the] words of Job.
