Job 31
1 I vowed to myself never to look with desire at young women.
covenant to cut: make(covenant) to/for eye my and what? to understand upon virgin
2 What should people expect to receive from God? What reward should the Almighty on high give them?
and what? portion god from above and inheritance Almighty from height
3 Isn't it disaster for the wicked and destruction for those who do wrong?
not calamity to/for unjust and misfortune to/for to work evil: wickedness
4 Doesn't God see everything I do—even count every step I take?
not he/she/it to see: see way: conduct my and all step my to recount
5 Have I lived a deceitful life? Have I been eager to tell lies?
if to go: walk with vanity: false and to hasten upon deceit foot my
6 No! Let God weigh me on the scales of his justice and let him discover my integrity.
to weigh me in/on/with balance righteousness and to know god integrity my
7 If I have wandered from God's way, if I have let what I see become my desires, if there's any stain of sin on 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 someone else eat what I have sown, and all that I have grown be uprooted.
to sow and another to eat and offspring my to uproot
9 If a woman has seduced me, or if I have looked for an opportunity to sleep with my neighbor's wife,
if to entice heart my upon woman and upon entrance neighbor my to ambush
10 then let my wife serve another, let other men sleep with her.
to grind to/for another woman: wife my and upon her to bow [emph?] another
11 For that would be wicked, a sin deserving punishment,
for (he/she/it *Q(K)*) wickedness (and he/she/it *Q(k)*) iniquity: crime judge
12 for this sin is like a fire that leads to destruction, destroying everything I have.
for fire he/she/it till Abaddon to eat and in/on/with all produce my to uproot
13 If I had refused to listen to my menservants or maidservants when they brought their complaints to me,
if to reject justice servant/slave my and maidservant my in/on/with strife their with me me
14 what would I do when God came to judge me? How would I reply if he investigated me?
and what? to make: do for to arise: rise God and for to reckon: visit what? to return: reply him
15 Didn't the same God make all of us?
not in/on/with belly: womb to make me to make him and to establish: make him in/on/with womb one
16 Have I refused to give the poor what they needed, or caused widows to despair?
if to withhold from pleasure poor and eye widow to end: expend
17 Have I even eaten just a piece of bread by myself? Haven't I always shared my food with orphans?
and to eat morsel my to/for alone me and not to eat orphan from her
18 From when I was young I was a father to orphans and took care of widows.
for from youth my to magnify me like/as father and from belly: womb mother my to lead her
19 If ever I saw someone needing clothes, the poor without anything to wear,
if to see: see to perish from without clothing and nothing covering to/for needy
20 they always thanked me for the wool clothing that kept them warm.
if not to bless me (loin his *Q(K)*) and from fleece lamb my to warm
21 If I raised my hand to hit an orphan, confident that if it came to court the judges would be on my side,
if to wave upon orphan hand: power my for to see: see in/on/with gate help my
22 then let my shoulder be pulled from its joint, my arm wrenched out of its socket.
shoulder my from shoulder [to] to fall: fall and arm my from branch: shoulder her to break
23 Since I'm terrified of what punishment God may have in store for me, and because of his majesty, I could never do this.
for dread to(wards) me calamity God and from elevation his not be able
24 Have I put my trust in gold, calling fine gold, ‘My security’?
if to set: make gold loin my and to/for gold to say confidence my
25 Have I delighted in being rich, happy at all my wealth I had gained?
if to rejoice for many strength: rich my and for mighty to find hand my
26 Have I looked at the sun shining so brilliantly or the moon moving in majesty across the sky
if to see: see light for to shine and moon precious to go: walk
27 and been tempted to secretly worship them by kissing my hand to them in devotion?
and to entice in/on/with secrecy heart my and to kiss hand my to/for lip my
28 This too would be a sin deserving punishment for it would mean I had denied God above.
also he/she/it iniquity: crime judge for to deceive to/for God from above
29 Have I ever been happy when disaster destroyed those who hated me, or celebrated when evil took them down?
if to rejoice in/on/with disaster to hate me and to rouse for to find him bad: evil
30 I have never allowed my mouth to sin by putting a curse on someone's life.
and not to give: allow to/for to sin palate my to/for to ask in/on/with oath soul: life his
31 Haven't my family asked, ‘Is there anyone who has not eaten as much as they wanted of his food?’
if not to say man tent my who? to give: allow from flesh his not to satisfy
32 I have never let strangers sleep in the street; I have opened my doors to travelers.
in/on/with outside not to lodge sojourner door my to/for way to open
33 Have I concealed my sins from others, hiding my wrongdoing deep inside me?
if to cover like/as Adam transgression my to/for to hide in/on/with breast my iniquity: crime my
34 Was I afraid of what everybody else would think, scared of the contempt families would show me, so that I kept quiet and didn't go outside?
for to tremble crowd many and contempt family to to be dismayed me and to silence: silent not to come out: come entrance
35 Why won't anyone listen to what I'm saying! I'm signing my name to endorse everything I've said. Let the Almighty answer me. Let my accuser write down what he is charging me with.
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 I would hold them up high; I would wear them on my head like a crown.
if: surely yes not upon shoulder my to lift: bear him to bind him crown to/for me
37 I would explain to him everything I'd done; I would hold my head high before him.
number step my to tell him like leader to present: come him
38 If my land has cried out against me; if her furrows have wept over me;
if upon me land: soil my to cry out and unitedness furrow her to weep [emph?]
39 if I have taken its crops without payment or if I have caused harm to the farmers;
if strength her to eat without silver: money and soul: life master her to breathe
40 then let thorns grow instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
underneath: instead wheat to come out: issue thistle and underneath: instead barley foul weed to finish word Job
