Job 31
1 I made a covenant with mine eyes, and I will not think upon a virgin.
covenant to cut: make(covenant) to/for eye my and what? to understand upon 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? portion god from above and inheritance Almighty from height
3 Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity.
not calamity to/for unjust and misfortune to/for to work evil: wickedness
4 Will he not see my way, and number all my steps?
not he/she/it to see: see way: conduct my and all step my to recount
5 But if I had gone with scorners, and if too my foot has hasted to deceit:
if to go: walk with vanity: false and to hasten upon deceit foot my
6 (for I am weighed in a just balance, and the Lord knows my innocence: )
to weigh me in/on/with balance righteousness and to know 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 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 others eat; and let me be uprooted on the earth.
to sow and another to eat and offspring my to uproot
9 If my heart has gone forth after another man's wife, and if I laid wait at her doors;
if to entice heart my upon woman and upon entrance neighbor my to ambush
10 then let my wife also please another, and let my children be brought low.
to grind to/for another woman: wife my and upon her to bow [emph?] another
11 For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, [in the case] of defiling [another] man's wife.
for (he/she/it *Q(K)*) wickedness (and he/she/it *Q(k)*) iniquity: crime judge
12 For it is a fire burning on every side, and whoever it attacks, it utterly destroys.
for fire he/she/it till Abaddon to eat and in/on/with all produce my to uproot
13 And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or [my] handmaid, when they pleaded 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 if the Lord should try me? and if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer?
and what? to make: do for to arise: rise God and for to reckon: visit what? to return: reply 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/on/with belly: womb to make me to make him and to establish: make him in/on/with 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 to withhold from pleasure poor and eye widow to end: expend
17 And if too I ate my morsel alone, and did not impart [of it] to the orphan;
and to eat morsel my to/for alone me and not to eat orphan from her
18 (for I nourished [them] as a father from my youth and guided [them] 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 And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him;
if to see: see to perish from without clothing and nothing covering to/for needy
20 and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were [not] warmed with the fleece of my lambs;
if not to bless me (loin his *Q(K)*) and from fleece lamb my to warm
21 if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior [to his]:
if to wave upon orphan hand: power my for to see: see in/on/with 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 shoulder [to] to fall: fall and arm my from branch: shoulder her to break
23 For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I can’t bear up by reason of his burden.
for dread to(wards) me calamity God and from elevation his not be able
24 If I made gold my treasure, and if too I trusted the precious stone;
if to set: make gold loin my and to/for gold to say confidence my
25 and if too I rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, and if too I laid my hand on innumerable [treasures]:
if to rejoice for many strength: rich my and for mighty to find hand my
26 (do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, and the moon waning? for they have not [power to continue]: )
if to see: see light for to shine and moon precious to go: walk
27 and if my heart was secretly deceived, and if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it:
and to entice in/on/with secrecy heart my and to kiss hand my to/for lip 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 he/she/it iniquity: crime judge for to deceive to/for God from above
29 And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies, and mine heart said, Aha!
if to rejoice in/on/with disaster to hate me and to rouse for to find him bad: evil
30 let then mine ear hear my curse, and let me be a byword among my people in my affliction.
and not to give: allow to/for to sin palate my to/for to ask in/on/with oath soul: 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 to say man tent my who? to give: allow from flesh his not to satisfy
32 for the stranger did not lodge without, and my door was opened to every one that came: )
in/on/with outside not to lodge sojourner door my to/for way to open
33 or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin;
if to cover like/as Adam transgression my to/for to hide in/on/with breast my iniquity: crime 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 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 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? 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 place [it] as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it.
if: surely yes not upon shoulder my to lift: bear him to bind him crown to/for me
37 And if I did not read it and return it, having taken nothing from the debtor:
number step my to tell him like leader to present: come him
38 If at any time the land groaned against me, and if its furrows mourned together;
if upon me land: soil my to cry out and unitedness furrow her to weep [emph?]
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 strength her to eat without silver: money and soul: life master her to breathe
40 then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, and a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.
underneath: instead wheat to come out: issue thistle and underneath: instead barley foul weed to finish word Job
