< Job 31 >
1 I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.
covenant to cut: make(covenant) to/for eye my and what? to understand upon virgin
2 For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?
and what? portion god from above and inheritance Almighty from height
3 Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?
not calamity to/for unjust and misfortune to/for to work evil: wickedness
4 Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?
not he/she/it to see: see way: conduct my and all step my to recount
5 If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit:
if to go: walk with vanity: false and to hasten upon deceit foot my
6 Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.
to weigh me in/on/with balance righteousness and to know god integrity my
7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to 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 Then let me sow and let another eat: and let my offspring be rooted out.
to sow and another to eat and offspring my to uproot
9 If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend’s door:
if to entice heart my upon woman and upon entrance neighbor my to ambush
10 Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.
to grind to/for another woman: wife my and upon her to bow [emph?] another
11 For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.
for (he/she/it *Q(K)*) wickedness (and he/she/it *Q(k)*) iniquity: crime judge
12 It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.
for fire he/she/it till Abaddon to eat and in/on/with all produce my to uproot
13 If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:
if to reject justice servant/slave my and maidservant my in/on/with strife their with me me
14 For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?
and what? to make: do for to arise: rise God and for to reckon: visit what? to return: reply him
15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?
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 have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:
if to withhold from pleasure poor and eye widow to end: expend
17 If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:
and to eat morsel my to/for alone me and not to eat orphan from her
18 (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother’s womb: )
for from youth my to magnify me like/as father and from belly: womb mother my to lead her
19 If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:
if to see: see to perish from without clothing and nothing covering to/for needy
20 If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:
if not to bless me (loin his *Q(K)*) and from fleece lamb my to warm
21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:
if to wave upon orphan hand: power my for to see: see in/on/with gate help my
22 Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.
shoulder my from shoulder [to] to fall: fall and arm my from branch: shoulder her to break
23 For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear.
for dread to(wards) me calamity God and from elevation his not be able
24 If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence:
if to set: make gold loin my and to/for gold to say confidence my
25 If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.
if to rejoice for many strength: rich my and for mighty to find hand my
26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, and the moon going in brightness:
if to see: see light for to shine and moon precious to go: walk
27 And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth:
and to entice in/on/with secrecy heart my and to kiss hand my to/for lip my
28 Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God.
also he/she/it iniquity: crime judge for to deceive to/for God from above
29 If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.
if to rejoice in/on/with disaster to hate me and to rouse for to find him bad: evil
30 For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul.
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 tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?
if not to say man tent my who? to give: allow from flesh his not to satisfy
32 The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.
in/on/with outside not to lodge sojourner door my to/for way to open
33 If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.
if to cover like/as Adam transgression my to/for to hide in/on/with breast my iniquity: crime my
34 If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and I have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the 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 Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,
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 That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?
if: surely yes not upon shoulder my to lift: bear him to bind him crown to/for me
37 At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.
number step my to tell him like leader to present: come him
38 If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn:
if upon me land: soil my to cry out and unitedness furrow her to weep [emph?]
39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof:
if strength her to eat without silver: money and soul: life master her to breathe
40 Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.
underneath: instead wheat to come out: issue thistle and underneath: instead barley foul weed to finish word Job