Job 31

1 A covenant I made to eyes my and what? will I look carefully on a virgin.

I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think on a maid?

2 And what? - [is] [the] portion of God above and [the] inheritance of [the] Almighty from high places.

For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

3 ¿ Not [does] calamity [belong] to an evil-doer and misfortune to [those who] do wickedness.

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

4 ¿ Not he does he see ways my and all steps my does he count?

Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

5 If I have walked with falsehood and it has made haste to deceit foot my.

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hurried to deceit;

6 Let him weigh me in balances of righteousness and let him acknowledge God integrity my.

Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know my integrity.

7 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.

If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot has stuck to my hands;

8 Let me sow and another let him eat and produce my let them be rooted up.

Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.

9 If it has been deceived heart my on a woman and at [the] doorway of neighbor my I have lain in wait.

If my heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door;

10 Let her grind for another wife my and over her let them bow down! others.

Then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down on her.

11 For (that *Q(K)*) [is] wickedness (and that *Q(k)*) [is] iniquity judges.

For this is an heinous crime; yes, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

12 For [is] a fire that [which] to Abaddon it will devour and all produce my it will root up.

For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

13 If I rejected [the] cause of male servant my and female servant my in complaint their with me.

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

14 And what? will I do if he will arise God and if he will visit what? will I respond to him.

What then shall I do when God rises up? and when he visits, what shall I answer him?

15 ¿ Not in the belly [the one who] made me did he make him and did prepare us? he in the womb one.

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

16 If I withheld any of [the] desire of poor [people] and [the] eyes of a widow I caused to fail.

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

17 And I may eat morsel of bread my to alone me and not he ate a fatherless one some of it.

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;

18 For since youth my he grew up with me like a father and from [the] womb of mother my I guided her.

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb; )

19 If I saw [one who] was perishing because not clothing and not covering [belonged] to the needy [person].

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

20 If not they blessed me (loins his *Q(K)*) and from [the] fleece of lambs my he warmed himself.

If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

21 If I brandished on a fatherless one hand my for I saw in the gate help my.

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

22 Shoulder my from its shoulder let it fall and arm my from arm its let it be broken.

Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

23 For [was] a fear to me calamity of God and from majesty his not I am able.

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

24 If I have made gold confidence my and to pure gold I have said security my.

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my confidence;

25 If I rejoiced for [was] great wealth my and for much it had found hand my.

If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

26 If I saw a light that it shone and [the] moon splendid [was] going.

If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

27 And it was gullible in secrecy heart my and it kissed hand my mouth my.

And my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:

28 Also that [is] iniquity calling for judgment for I denied God above.

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

29 If I rejoiced in [the] disaster of [one who] hated me and I excited myself if it had found him calamity.

If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

30 And not I have permitted to sin palate my by asking for by a curse life his.

Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

31 If not they have said [the] men of tent my who? will he give from meat his not [one who] is satisfied.

If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

32 In the street not he passed [the] night a sojourner doors my to the path I opened.

The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the travelers.

33 If I have concealed like Adam transgressions my by hiding in bosom my iniquity my.

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:

34 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.

Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

35 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.

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.

36 If not on shoulder my I will carry it I will tie on it a crown to myself.

Surely I would take it on my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

37 [the] number of Steps my I will tell to him like a chief I will approach him.

I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him.

38 If on me land my it cried out and together furrows its they wept!

If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

39 If produce its I have eaten not money and [the] life of owners its I have caused to breathe out.

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

40 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.

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.