Job 31
1 I made a covenant with mine eyes, and I will not think upon a virgin.
A covenant I made to eyes my and what? will I look carefully on a virgin.
2 Now what portion has God given from above? and is there an inheritance [given] of the Mighty One from the highest?
And what? - [is] [the] portion of God above and [the] inheritance of [the] Almighty from high places.
3 Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity.
¿ Not [does] calamity [belong] to an evil-doer and misfortune to [those who] do wickedness.
4 Will he not see my way, and number all my steps?
¿ Not he does he see ways my and all steps my does he count?
5 But if I had gone with scorners, and if too my foot has hasted to deceit:
If I have walked with falsehood and it has made haste to deceit foot my.
6 (for I am weighed in a just balance, and the Lord knows my innocence: )
Let him weigh me in balances of righteousness and let him acknowledge God integrity my.
7 if my foot has turned aside out of the way, or if mine heart has followed mine eye, and if too I have touched gifts with 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 then let me sow, and let others eat; and let me be uprooted on the earth.
Let me sow and another let him eat and produce my let them be rooted up.
9 If my heart has gone forth after another man's wife, and if I laid wait at her doors;
If it has been deceived heart my on a woman and at [the] doorway of neighbor my I have lain in wait.
10 then let my wife also please another, and let my children be brought low.
Let her grind for another wife my and over her let them bow down! others.
11 For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, [in the case] of defiling [another] man's wife.
For (that *Q(K)*) [is] wickedness (and that *Q(k)*) [is] iniquity judges.
12 For it is a fire burning on every side, and whoever it attacks, it utterly destroys.
For [is] a fire that [which] to Abaddon it will devour and all produce my it will root up.
13 And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or [my] handmaid, when they pleaded with me;
If I rejected [the] cause of male servant my and female servant my in complaint their with me.
14 what then shall I do if the Lord should try me? and if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer?
And what? will I do if he will arise God and if he will visit what? will I respond to him.
15 Were not they too formed as I also was formed in the womb? yes, we were formed in the same womb.
¿ Not in the belly [the one who] made me did he make him and did prepare us? he in the womb one.
16 But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye 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 And if too I ate my morsel alone, and did not impart [of it] to the orphan;
And I may eat morsel of bread my to alone me and not he ate a fatherless one some of it.
18 (for I nourished [them] as a father from my youth and guided [them] 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 And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him;
If I saw [one who] was perishing because not clothing and not covering [belonged] to the needy [person].
20 and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders 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 lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior [to his]:
If I brandished on a fatherless one hand my for I saw in the gate help my.
22 let them my shoulder start from the blade-bone, and my arm be crushed off from the elbow.
Shoulder my from its shoulder let it fall and arm my from arm its let it be broken.
23 For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I can’t bear up by reason of his burden.
For [was] a fear to me calamity of God and from majesty his not I am able.
24 If I made gold my treasure, and if too I trusted the precious stone;
If I have made gold confidence my and to pure gold I have said security my.
25 and if too I rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, and if too I laid my hand on innumerable [treasures]:
If I rejoiced for [was] great wealth my and for much it had found hand my.
26 (do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, and the moon waning? for they have not [power to continue]: )
If I saw a light that it shone and [the] moon splendid [was] going.
27 and if my heart was secretly deceived, and if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it:
And it was gullible in secrecy heart my and it kissed hand my mouth my.
28 let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: for I [should] have lied against the Lord Most High.
Also that [is] iniquity calling for judgment for I denied God above.
29 And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies, and mine heart said, Aha!
If I rejoiced in [the] disaster of [one who] hated me and I excited myself if it had found him calamity.
30 let then mine ear hear my curse, and let me be a byword among my people in my affliction.
And not I have permitted to sin palate my by asking for by a curse life his.
31 And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh; (whereas I was very kind:
If not they have said [the] men of tent my who? will he give from meat his not [one who] is satisfied.
32 for the stranger did not lodge without, and my door was opened to every one that came: )
In the street not he passed [the] night a sojourner doors my to the path I opened.
33 or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin;
If I have concealed like Adam transgressions my by hiding in bosom my iniquity my.
34 (for I did not stand in awe of a great multitude, so as not to declare boldly before them: ) and if too I permitted a poor man to go out of my door with an empty bosom:
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 a hearer, ) and if I had not feared the hand of the Lord; and [as to] the written charge which I had against any one,
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 I would place [it] as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it.
If not on shoulder my I will carry it I will tie on it a crown to myself.
37 And if I did not read it and return it, having taken nothing from the debtor:
[the] number of Steps my I will tell to him like a chief I will approach him.
38 If at any time the land groaned against me, and if its furrows mourned together;
If on me land my it cried out and together furrows its they wept!
39 and if I ate its strength alone without price, and if I too grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking [anything] from [him]:
If produce its I have eaten not money and [the] life of owners its I have caused to breathe out.
40 then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, and a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.
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.
