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; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
2 And what? - [is] [the] portion of God above and [the] inheritance of [the] Almighty from high places.
For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?
3 ¿ Not [does] calamity [belong] to an evil-doer and misfortune to [those who] do wickedness.
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
4 ¿ Not he does he see ways my and all steps my does he count?
Doesn’t 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 falsehood, and 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, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement 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 the produce of my field 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 has been enticed to a woman, and 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 for another, and let others sleep with her.
11 For (that *Q(K)*) [is] wickedness (and that *Q(k)*) [is] iniquity judges.
For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be 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 have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, 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 will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will 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.
Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t 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 alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
18 For since youth my he grew up with me like a father and from [the] womb of mother my I guided her.
(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, 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 that the needy had no covering;
20 If not they blessed me (loins his *Q(K)*) and from [the] fleece of lambs my he warmed himself.
if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;
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, because 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 shoulder fall from the 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 calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.
24 If I have made gold confidence my and to pure gold I have said security my.
“If I have made gold my hope, and 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 have rejoiced 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 have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,
27 And it was gullible in secrecy heart my and it kissed hand my mouth my.
and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth;
28 Also that [is] iniquity calling for judgment for I denied God above.
this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have denied the God who 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 have rejoiced at the destruction of him who 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.
(I have certainly not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);
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 tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’
32 In the street not he passed [the] night a sojourner doors my to the path I opened.
(the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
33 If I have concealed like Adam transgressions my by hiding in bosom my iniquity my.
if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
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.
because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go 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 I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!
36 If not on shoulder my I will carry it I will tie on it a crown to myself.
Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and I would bind it to me as a crown.
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. I would go near to him like a prince.
38 If on me land my it cried out and together furrows its they wept!
If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;
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 its fruits without money, or have caused its owners 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 briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
