Job 31
1 I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?
covenant to cut: make(covenant) to/for eye my and what? to understand upon virgin
2 For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?
and what? portion god from above and inheritance Almighty from height
3 Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?
not calamity to/for unjust and misfortune to/for to work evil: wickedness
4 Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?
not he/she/it to see: see way: conduct my and all step my to recount
5 If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;
if to go: walk with vanity: false and to hasten upon deceit foot my
6 (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness: )
to weigh me in/on/with balance righteousness and to know god integrity my
7 If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;
if to stretch step my from [the] way: conduct and after eye my to go: went heart my and in/on/with palm my to cleave blemish
8 Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.
to sow and another to eat and offspring my to uproot
9 If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;
if to entice heart my upon woman and upon entrance neighbor my to ambush
10 Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.
to grind to/for another woman: wife my and upon her to bow [emph?] another
11 For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:
for (he/she/it *Q(K)*) wickedness (and he/she/it *Q(k)*) iniquity: crime judge
12 It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.
for fire he/she/it till Abaddon to eat and in/on/with all produce my to uproot
13 If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;
if to reject justice servant/slave my and maidservant my in/on/with strife their with me me
14 What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?
and what? to make: do for to arise: rise God and for to reckon: visit what? to return: reply him
15 Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?
not in/on/with belly: womb to make me to make him and to establish: make him in/on/with womb one
16 If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
if to withhold from pleasure poor and eye widow to end: expend
17 If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;
and to eat morsel my to/for alone me and not to eat orphan from her
18 (For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother; )
for from youth my to magnify me like/as father and from belly: womb mother my to lead her
19 If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;
if to see: see to perish from without clothing and nothing covering to/for needy
20 If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;
if not to bless me (loin his *Q(K)*) and from fleece lamb my to warm
21 If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;
if to wave upon orphan hand: power my for to see: see in/on/with gate help my
22 May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.
shoulder my from shoulder [to] to fall: fall and arm my from branch: shoulder her to break
23 For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.
for dread to(wards) me calamity God and from elevation his not be able
24 If I made gold my hope, or if I ever said to the best gold, I have put my faith in you;
if to set: make gold loin my and to/for gold to say confidence my
25 If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;
if to rejoice for many strength: rich my and for mighty to find hand my
26 If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,
if to see: see light for to shine and moon precious to go: walk
27 A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;
and to entice in/on/with secrecy heart my and to kiss hand my to/for lip my
28 That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.
also he/she/it iniquity: crime judge for to deceive to/for God from above
29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;
if to rejoice in/on/with disaster to hate me and to rouse for to find him bad: evil
30 (For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life; )
and not to give: allow to/for to sin palate my to/for to ask in/on/with oath soul: life his
31 If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?
if not to say man tent my who? to give: allow from flesh his not to satisfy
32 The traveller did not take his night's rest in the street, and my doors were open to anyone on a journey;
in/on/with outside not to lodge sojourner door my to/for way to open
33 If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,
if to cover like/as Adam transgression my to/for to hide in/on/with breast my iniquity: crime my
34 For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door;
for to tremble crowd many and contempt family to to be dismayed me and to silence: silent not to come out: come entrance
35 If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!
who? to give: if only! to/for me to hear: hear to/for me look! mark my Almighty to answer me and scroll: document to write man strife my
36 Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown;
if: surely yes not upon shoulder my to lift: bear him to bind him crown to/for me
37 I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended.
number step my to tell him like leader to present: come him
38 If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;
if upon me land: soil my to cry out and unitedness furrow her to weep [emph?]
39 If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;
if strength her to eat without silver: money and soul: life master her to breathe
40 Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.
underneath: instead wheat to come out: issue thistle and underneath: instead barley foul weed to finish word Job
