< Job 31 >
1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why 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 portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
and what? portion god from above and inheritance Almighty from height
3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment 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, or if 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 an even 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 mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine 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 my offspring be rooted out.
to sow and another to eat and offspring my to uproot
9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid 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 this is an heinous crime; yea, it is 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 to 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 manservant or of my maidservant, 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 visiteth, 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 the poor from their desire, 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 ( For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her 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 perish for want of clothing, or any poor without 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, when 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 mine arm fall from my 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 destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
for dread to(wards) me calamity God and from elevation his not be able
24 If I have made gold my hope, or 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 mine 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, or 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 judge: for I should have denied the 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 lifted up myself when evil found him:
if to rejoice in/on/with disaster to hate me and to rouse for to find him bad: evil
30 Neither have I suffered 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 said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
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: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
in/on/with outside not to lodge sojourner door my to/for way to open
33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, 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 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, 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 one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written 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 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
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 against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
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 owners thereof to lose their life:
if strength her to eat without silver: money and soul: life master her to breathe
40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle 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