Job 31
1 covenant to cut: make(covenant) to/for eye my and what? to understand upon virgin
“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
2 and what? portion god from above and inheritance Almighty from height
For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?
3 not calamity to/for unjust and misfortune to/for to work evil: wickedness
Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
4 not he/she/it to see: see way: conduct my and all step my to recount
Does He not see my ways and count my every step?
5 if to go: walk with vanity: false and to hasten upon deceit foot my
If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,
6 to weigh me in/on/with balance righteousness and to know god integrity my
let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my 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 steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,
8 to sow and another to eat and offspring my to uproot
then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.
9 if to entice heart my upon woman and upon entrance neighbor my to ambush
If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,
10 to grind to/for another woman: wife my and upon her to bow [emph?] another
then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.
11 for (he/she/it *Q(K)*) wickedness (and he/she/it *Q(k)*) iniquity: crime judge
For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.
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 burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.
13 if to reject justice servant/slave my and maidservant my in/on/with strife their with me me
If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,
14 and what? to make: do for to arise: rise God and for to reckon: visit what? to return: reply him
what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account?
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 who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?
16 if to withhold from pleasure poor and eye widow to end: expend
If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,
17 and to eat morsel my to/for alone me and not to eat orphan from her
if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—
18 for from youth my to magnify me like/as father and from belly: womb mother my to lead her
though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—
19 if to see: see to perish from without clothing and nothing covering to/for needy
if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,
20 if not to bless me (loin his *Q(K)*) and from fleece lamb my to warm
if his heart has not blessed me for warming him 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 that I had support in the gate,
22 shoulder my from shoulder [to] to fall: fall and arm my from branch: shoulder her to break
then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.
23 for dread to(wards) me calamity God and from elevation his not be able
For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.
24 if to set: make gold loin my and to/for gold to say confidence my
If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,
25 if to rejoice for many strength: rich my and for mighty to find hand my
if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,
26 if to see: see light for to shine and moon precious to go: walk
if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,
27 and to entice in/on/with secrecy heart my and to kiss hand my to/for lip my
so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
28 also he/she/it iniquity: crime judge for to deceive to/for God from above
this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.
29 if to rejoice in/on/with disaster to hate me and to rouse for to find him bad: evil
If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—
30 and not to give: allow to/for to sin palate my to/for to ask in/on/with oath soul: life his
I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for 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 house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—
32 in/on/with outside not to lodge sojourner door my to/for way to open
but no stranger had to lodge on the street, for my door has been open to the traveler—
33 if to cover like/as Adam transgression my to/for to hide in/on/with breast my iniquity: crime my
if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,
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 greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—
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! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
36 if: surely yes not upon shoulder my to lift: bear him to bind him crown to/for me
Surely I would carry it on my shoulder and wear it like a crown.
37 number step my to tell him like leader to present: come him
I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.)—
38 if upon me land: soil my to cry out and unitedness furrow her to weep [emph?]
if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,
39 if strength her to eat without silver: money and soul: life master her to breathe
if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
40 underneath: instead wheat to come out: issue thistle and underneath: instead barley foul weed to finish word Job
then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.
