Job 31

1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; how then should I look upon a maid?

covenant to cut: make(covenant) to/for eye my and what? to understand upon virgin

2 For what would be the portion of God from above, and the heritage of the Almighty from on high?

and what? portion god from above and inheritance Almighty from height

3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

not calamity to/for unjust and misfortune to/for to work evil: wickedness

4 Doth not He see my ways, and count all my steps?

not he/she/it to see: see way: conduct my and all step my to recount

5 If I have walked with vanity, and my foot hath hasted to deceit —

if to go: walk with vanity: false and to hasten upon deceit foot my

6 Let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know mine integrity —

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 my heart walked after mine eyes, and if any 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; yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

to sow and another to eat and offspring my to uproot

9 If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbour's door;

if to entice heart my upon woman and upon entrance neighbor my to ambush

10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

to grind to/for another woman: wife my and upon her to bow [emph?] another

11 For that were a heinous crime; yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

for (he/she/it *Q(K)*) wickedness (and he/she/it *Q(k)*) iniquity: crime judge

12 For it is a fire that consumeth unto destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

for fire he/she/it till Abaddon to eat and in/on/with all produce my to uproot

13 If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me —

if to reject justice servant/slave my and maidservant my in/on/with strife their with me me

14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when He remembereth, 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? And did not One fashion us 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 withheld aught that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

if to withhold from pleasure poor and eye widow to end: expend

17 Or have eaten my morsel myself 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 Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have been her guide 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 seen any wanderer in want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

if to see: see to perish from without clothing and nothing covering to/for needy

20 If his loins 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, because I saw my help in the gate;

if to wave upon orphan hand: power my for to see: see in/on/with gate help my

22 Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

shoulder my from shoulder [to] to fall: fall and arm my from branch: shoulder her to break

23 For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of His majesty I could do nothing.

for dread to(wards) me calamity God and from elevation his not be able

24 If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold: 'Thou art my confidence';

if to set: make gold loin my and to/for gold to say confidence my

25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, 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, or the moon walking in brightness;

if to see: see light for to shine and moon precious to go: walk

27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, and my mouth hath kissed my hand;

and to entice in/on/with secrecy heart my and to kiss hand my to/for lip my

28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have lied to God that is above.

also he/she/it iniquity: crime judge for to deceive to/for God from above

29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or exulted when evil found him —

if to rejoice in/on/with disaster to hate me and to rouse for to find him bad: evil

30 Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse.

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 said not: 'Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat?'

if not to say man tent my who? to give: allow from flesh his not to satisfy

32 The stranger did not lodge in the street; my doors I opened to the roadside.

in/on/with outside not to lodge sojourner door my to/for way to open

33 If after the manner of men I covered my transgressions, by hiding mine 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 Because I feared the great multitude, and the most contemptible among families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not 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 Oh that I had one to hear me! — Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me — and that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!

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 Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto 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 declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

number step my to tell him like leader to present: come him

38 If my land cry out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together;

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, or have caused the tillers thereof to be disappointed —

if strength her to eat without silver: money and soul: life master her to breathe

40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and noisome 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