Job 31

1 covenant to cut: make(covenant) to/for eye my and what? to understand upon virgin

I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?

2 and what? portion god from above and inheritance Almighty from height

For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?

3 not calamity to/for unjust and misfortune to/for to work evil: wickedness

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?

4 not he/she/it to see: see way: conduct my and all step my to recount

Doth not he see my ways, And number all my steps?

5 if to go: walk with vanity: false and to hasten upon deceit foot my

If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to deceit

6 to weigh me in/on/with balance righteousness and to know god integrity my

(Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity);

7 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

If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands:

8 to sow and another to eat and offspring my to uproot

Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

9 if to entice heart my upon woman and upon entrance neighbor my to ambush

If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door;

10 to grind to/for another woman: wife my and upon her to bow [emph?] another

Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.

11 for (he/she/it *Q(K)*) wickedness (and he/she/it *Q(k)*) iniquity: crime judge

For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

12 for fire he/she/it till Abaddon to eat and in/on/with all produce my to uproot

For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.

13 if to reject justice servant/slave my and maidservant my in/on/with strife their with me me

If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;

14 and what? to make: do for to arise: rise God and for to reckon: visit what? to return: reply him

What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

15 not in/on/with belly: womb to make me to make him and to establish: make him in/on/with womb one

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

16 if to withhold from pleasure poor and eye widow to end: expend

If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

17 and to eat morsel my to/for alone me and not to eat orphan from her

Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof

18 for from youth my to magnify me like/as father and from belly: womb mother my to lead her

(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother’s womb);

19 if to see: see to perish from without clothing and nothing covering to/for needy

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;

20 if not to bless me (loin his *Q(K)*) and from fleece lamb my to warm

If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

21 if to wave upon orphan hand: power my for to see: see in/on/with 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 shoulder [to] to fall: fall and arm my from branch: shoulder her to break

Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.

23 for dread to(wards) me calamity God and from elevation his not be able

For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.

24 if to set: make gold loin my and to/for gold to say confidence my

If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, [Thou art] my confidence;

25 if to rejoice for many strength: rich my and for mighty to find hand my

If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much;

26 if to see: see light for to shine and moon precious to go: walk

If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,

27 and to entice in/on/with secrecy heart my and to kiss hand my to/for lip my

And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand:

28 also he/she/it iniquity: crime judge for to deceive to/for God from above

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above.

29 if to rejoice in/on/with disaster to hate me and to rouse for to find him bad: evil

If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him

30 and not to give: allow to/for to sin palate my to/for to ask in/on/with oath soul: life his

(Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);

31 if not to say man tent my who? to give: allow from flesh his not to satisfy

If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat?

32 in/on/with outside not to lodge sojourner door my to/for way to open

(The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller);

33 if to cover like/as Adam transgression my to/for to hide in/on/with breast my iniquity: crime my

If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

34 for to tremble crowd many and contempt family to to be dismayed me and to silence: silent not to come out: come entrance

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—

35 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

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!

36 if: surely yes not upon shoulder my to lift: bear him to bind him crown to/for me

Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown:

37 number step my to tell him like leader to present: come him

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near unto him.

38 if upon me land: soil my to cry out and unitedness furrow her to weep [emph?]

If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;

39 if strength her to eat without silver: money and soul: life master her to breathe

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

40 underneath: instead wheat to come out: issue thistle and underneath: instead barley foul weed to finish word Job

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