Job 31
1 A covenant, I solemnised for mine eyes, —How then could I gaze upon a virgin?
covenant to cut: make(covenant) to/for eye my and what? to understand upon virgin
2 Or what would have been my portion of GOD from above? Or what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
and what? portion god from above and inheritance Almighty from height
3 Is there not calamity, for the perverse? and misfortune, for the workers of iniquity?
not calamity to/for unjust and misfortune to/for to work evil: wickedness
4 Would, he, not see my ways? and of all my steps, take account?
not he/she/it to see: see way: conduct my and all step my to recount
5 Verily I walked not in falsity, nor did my foot haste unto deceit: —
if to go: walk with vanity: false and to hasten upon deceit foot my
6 Let him weigh me in balances of righteousness, —and let GOD take note of mine integrity!
to weigh me in/on/with balance righteousness and to know god integrity my
7 If my goings have swerved from the way, —and, after mine eyes, hath gone my heart, and, to my hands, hath adhered any stain,
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 Let me sow but, another, eat. And let, what I have springing up, be uprooted!
to sow and another to eat and offspring my to uproot
9 If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, or, by the door of my neighbour, I have lien in wait,
if to entice heart my upon woman and upon entrance neighbor my to ambush
10 Let my wife, grind to another, and, over her, let others bend!
to grind to/for another woman: wife my and upon her to bow [emph?] another
11 Surely that had been a shameful thing! and that an iniquity for the judges!
for (he/she/it *Q(K)*) wickedness (and he/she/it *Q(k)*) iniquity: crime judge
12 Surely, a fire, had that been, which, unto destruction, would have consumed, and, of all mine increase, had it torn up the root.
for fire he/she/it till Abaddon to eat and in/on/with all produce my to uproot
13 If I refused the right of my servant, or my handmaid, 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 could I have done when GOD rose up? And, when he visited, what could I have answered 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 who, in the womb, made me, make him? And is not he who formed us in the body one?
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 withheld—from pleasure—the poor, or, the eyes of the widow, I dimmed;
if to withhold from pleasure poor and eye widow to end: expend
17 Or, used to eat my morsel alone, so that the fatherless did not eat thereof;
and to eat morsel my to/for alone me and not to eat orphan from her
18 Surely, from my youth, he grew up to me, as to a father, and, from my birth, I acted as guide to her:
for from youth my to magnify me like/as father and from belly: womb mother my to lead her
19 If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
if to see: see to perish from without clothing and nothing covering to/for needy
20 If his loins did not bless me, or if, with the fleece of my lambs, he did not warm himself;
if not to bless me (loin his *Q(K)*) and from fleece lamb my to warm
21 If I shook—against the fatherless—my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help,
if to wave upon orphan hand: power my for to see: see in/on/with gate help my
22 Let, my shoulder, from the shoulder-blade, fall, and, my arm, from the upper bone, be broken;
shoulder my from shoulder [to] to fall: fall and arm my from branch: shoulder her to break
23 For, a dread unto me, was calamity from GOD, and, from his majesty, I could not escape.
for dread to(wards) me calamity God and from elevation his not be able
24 If I made gold my stay, and, to precious metal, said, My confidence!
if to set: make gold loin my and to/for gold to say confidence my
25 If I rejoiced because great was my substance, and, an abundance, my hand had discovered;
if to rejoice for many strength: rich my and for mighty to find hand my
26 If I looked at the sun, when it flashed forth light, or at the moon, majestically marching along;
if to see: see light for to shine and moon precious to go: walk
27 And befooled secretly was my heart, so that my hand kissed my mouth,
and to entice in/on/with secrecy heart my and to kiss hand my to/for lip my
28 That too, had been a judicial iniquity, For I should have been false to GOD, above.
also he/she/it iniquity: crime judge for to deceive to/for God from above
29 If rejoiced in the misfortune of him that hated me, or exulted when calamity found him; —
if to rejoice in/on/with disaster to hate me and to rouse for to find him bad: evil
30 Neither did I suffer my palate to sin, by asking, with a curse, for his life:
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 household have not said, Oh for some of his flesh—we cannot get filled,
if not to say man tent my who? to give: allow from flesh his not to satisfy
32 Outside, the sojourner lodged not for the night, My doors—to the wayfarer, I threw open.
in/on/with outside not to lodge sojourner door my to/for way to open
33 If I covered, like Adam, my transgressions, by hiding in my bosom mine iniquity,
if to cover like/as Adam transgression my to/for to hide in/on/with breast my iniquity: crime my
34 Then let me be made to tremble at a great throng, yea let, the contempt of families, terrify me, so that, keeping silence, I shall not go 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 I had one to hear me, Lo! my crossmark, May, the Almighty, answer me! And would that, a book, mine opponent had written!
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 Oh! would I not, upon my shoulder, lift it, or bind it as a crown upon me;
if: surely yes not upon shoulder my to lift: bear him to bind him crown to/for me
37 The number of my footsteps, I would declare to him, Like a noble, would I draw near to him.
number step my to tell him like leader to present: come him
38 If, against me, my ground used to cry out, and, together, my ridges did weep;
if upon me land: soil my to cry out and unitedness furrow her to weep [emph?]
39 If, the strength thereof, I used to eat, without payment, and, the soul of the holders thereof, I made groan;
if strength her to eat without silver: money and soul: life master her to breathe
40 Instead of wheat, let there come forth bramble, and, instead of barley, a bad-smelling weed! Ended are the words of Job.
underneath: instead wheat to come out: issue thistle and underneath: instead barley foul weed to finish word Job
