Job 31
1 "I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
A covenant I made to eyes my and what? will I look carefully on a virgin.
2 For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from Shaddai on high?
And what? - [is] [the] portion of God above and [the] inheritance of [the] Almighty from high places.
3 Is it not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for evildoers?
¿ Not [does] calamity [belong] to an evil-doer and misfortune to [those who] do wickedness.
4 Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps?
¿ Not he does he see ways my and all steps my does he count?
5 "If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit
If I have walked with falsehood and it has made haste to deceit foot my.
6 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
Let him weigh me in balances of righteousness and let him acknowledge God integrity my.
7 if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to 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 another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
Let me sow and another let him eat and produce my let them be rooted up.
9 "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door,
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 grind for another, and let others sleep with her.
Let her grind for another wife my and over her let them bow down! others.
11 For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:
For (that *Q(K)*) [is] wickedness (and that *Q(k)*) [is] iniquity judges.
12 For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
For [is] a fire that [which] to Abaddon it will devour and all produce my it will root up.
13 "If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended 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 when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?
And what? will I do if he will arise God and if he will visit what? will I respond to him.
15 Did not he who made me in the womb make him? Did not the same one fashion us in the womb?
¿ Not in the belly [the one who] made me did he make him and did prepare us? he in the womb one.
16 "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes 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 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
And I may eat morsel of bread my to alone me and not he ate a fatherless one some of it.
18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided 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 if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
If I saw [one who] was perishing because not clothing and not covering [belonged] to the needy [person].
20 if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;
If not they blessed me (loins his *Q(K)*) and from [the] fleece of lambs my he warmed himself.
21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
If I brandished on a fatherless one hand my for I saw in the gate help my.
22 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
Shoulder my from its shoulder let it fall and arm my from arm its let it be broken.
23 For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
For [was] a fear to me calamity of God and from majesty his not I am able.
24 "If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'
If I have made gold confidence my and to pure gold I have said security my.
25 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
If I rejoiced for [was] great wealth my and for much it had found hand my.
26 if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,
If I saw a light that it shone and [the] moon splendid [was] going.
27 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
And it was gullible in secrecy heart my and it kissed hand my mouth my.
28 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.
Also that [is] iniquity calling for judgment for I denied God above.
29 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;
If I rejoiced in [the] disaster of [one who] hated me and I excited myself if it had found him calamity.
30 (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);
And not I have permitted to sin palate my by asking for by a curse life his.
31 if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'
If not they have said [the] men of tent my who? will he give from meat his not [one who] is satisfied.
32 (the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
In the street not he passed [the] night a sojourner doors my to the path I opened.
33 if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
If I have concealed like Adam transgressions my by hiding in bosom my iniquity my.
34 because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door?
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 one to hear me. (look, here is my signature, let Shaddai answer me); let the accuser write my indictment.
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 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.
If not on shoulder my I will carry it I will tie on it a crown to myself.
37 I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him.
[the] number of Steps my I will tell to him like a chief I will approach him.
38 If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;
If on me land my it cried out and together furrows its they wept!
39 if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
If produce its I have eaten not money and [the] life of owners its I have caused to breathe out.
40 let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.
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.
