Job 31
1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?
A covenant I made to eyes my and what? will I look carefully on a virgin.
2 For what would have been [my] portion of God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?
And what? - [is] [the] portion of God above and [the] inheritance of [the] Almighty from high places.
3 Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?
¿ Not [does] calamity [belong] to an evil-doer and misfortune to [those who] do wickedness.
4 Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?
¿ Not he does he see ways my and all steps my does he count?
5 If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit,
If I have walked with falsehood and it has made haste to deceit foot my.
6 (Let me be weighed in an even balance, and God will take knowledge of my blamelessness; )
Let him weigh me in balances of righteousness and let him acknowledge God integrity my.
7 If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth 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 Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.
Let me sow and another let him eat and produce my let them be rooted up.
9 If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,
If it has been deceived heart my on a woman and at [the] doorway of neighbor my I have lain in wait.
10 Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
Let her grind for another wife my and over her let them bow down! others.
11 For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity [to be judged by] the judges:
For (that *Q(K)*) [is] wickedness (and that *Q(k)*) [is] iniquity judges.
12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
For [is] a fire that [which] to Abaddon it will devour and all produce my it will root up.
13 If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,
If I rejected [the] cause of male servant my and female servant my in complaint their with me.
14 What then should I do when God riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him?
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 that made me in the womb make him? and did not One fashion 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 withheld the poor from [their] desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
If I withheld any of [the] desire of poor [people] and [the] eyes of a widow I caused to fail.
17 Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,
And I may eat morsel of bread my to alone me and not he ate a fatherless one some of it.
18 (For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the [widow] from my mother's womb; )
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 any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;
If I saw [one who] was perishing because not clothing and not covering [belonged] to the needy [person].
20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;
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 an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:
If I brandished on a fatherless one hand my for I saw in the gate help my.
22 [Then] let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone!
Shoulder my from its shoulder let it fall and arm my from arm its let it be broken.
23 For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.
For [was] a fear to me calamity of God and from majesty his not I am able.
24 If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence!
If I have made gold confidence my and to pure gold I have said security my.
25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
If I rejoiced for [was] great wealth my and for much it had found hand my.
26 If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,
If I saw a light that it shone and [the] moon splendid [was] going.
27 And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand:
And it was gullible in secrecy heart my and it kissed hand my mouth my.
28 This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the God who is above.
Also that [is] iniquity calling for judgment for I denied God above.
29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and 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 (Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking 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 tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? —
If not they have said [the] men of tent my who? will he give from meat his not [one who] is satisfied.
32 The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.
In the street not he passed [the] night a sojourner doors my to the path I opened.
33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,
If I have concealed like Adam transgressions my by hiding in bosom my iniquity my.
34 Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door, ...
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! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!
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 Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me [as] a crown;
If not on shoulder my I will carry it I will tie on it a crown to myself.
37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him.
[the] number of Steps my I will tell to him like a chief I will approach him.
38 If my land cry 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 eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:
If produce its I have eaten not money and [the] life of owners its I have caused to breathe out.
40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
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.
