Job 31
1 I MADE a covenant with mine eyes; how then should I look upon a maid?
A covenant I made to eyes my and what? will I look carefully on a virgin.
2 For what [is] the portion of God from above, and the heritage of the Almighty from on high?
And what? - [is] [the] portion of God above and [the] inheritance of [the] Almighty from high places.
3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
¿ Not [does] calamity [belong] to an evil-doer and misfortune to [those who] do wickedness.
4 Doth not 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 vanity, and my foot hath hasted 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 mine integrity; )
Let him weigh me in balances of righteousness and let him acknowledge God integrity my.
7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any spot hath cleaved to mine 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; yea, 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 mine heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbour’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 unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
Let her grind for another wife my and over her let them bow down! others.
11 For that were an heinous crime; yea, it were 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 consumeth unto Destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
For [is] a fire that [which] to Abaddon it will devour and all produce my it will root up.
13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, 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 riseth up? and when he visiteth, 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 that made me in the womb make him? and did not 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 hath not eaten thereof;
And I may eat morsel of bread my to alone me and not he ate a fatherless one some of it.
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 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 loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
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 mine 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 was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I could 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, [Thou art] my confidence;
If I have made gold confidence my and to pure gold I have said security my.
25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
If I rejoiced for [was] great wealth my and for much it had found hand my.
26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
If I saw a light that it shone and [the] moon splendid [was] going.
27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, and my mouth hath kissed my hand:
And it was gullible in secrecy heart my and it kissed hand my mouth my.
28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges: for I should have lied to God that is above.
Also that [is] iniquity calling for judgment for I denied God above.
29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that 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 (Yea, I suffered not 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 said not, Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his flesh?
If not they have said [the] men of tent my who? will he give from meat his not [one who] is satisfied.
32 The stranger did not lodge in the street; but I opened my doors to the traveller;
In the street not he passed [the] night a sojourner doors my to the path I opened.
33 If like Adam I covered my transgressions, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom;
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 went not 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! (lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me; ) and [that I had] the indictment which mine adversary hath written!
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 upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto 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 unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
[the] number of Steps my I will tell to him like a chief I will approach him.
38 If my land cry out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together;
If on me land my it cried out and together furrows its they wept!
39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof 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 thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle 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.
