Job 31
1 covenant to cut: make(covenant) to/for eye my and what? to understand upon virgin
I made a couenant with mine eyes: why then should I thinke on a mayde?
2 and what? portion god from above and inheritance Almighty from height
For what portion should I haue of God from aboue? and what inheritance of the Almightie from on hie?
3 not calamity to/for unjust and misfortune to/for to work evil: wickedness
Is not destruction to the wicked and strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie?
4 not he/she/it to see: see way: conduct my and all step my to recount
Doeth not he beholde my wayes and tell all my steps?
5 if to go: walk with vanity: false and to hasten upon deceit foot my
If I haue walked in vanitie, or if my foote hath made haste to deceite,
6 to weigh me in/on/with balance righteousness and to know god integrity my
Let God weigh me in the iust balance, and he shall know mine vprightnes.
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 steppe hath turned out of the way, or mine heart hath walked after mine eye, or if any blot hath cleaued to mine handes,
8 to sow and another to eat and offspring my to uproot
Let me sowe, and let another eate: yea, let my plantes be rooted out.
9 if to entice heart my upon woman and upon entrance neighbor my to ambush
If mine heart hath bene deceiued by a woman, or if I haue layde wayte at the doore of my neighbour,
10 to grind to/for another woman: wife my and upon her to bow [emph?] another
Let my wife grinde vnto another man, and let other men bow downe vpon her:
11 for (he/she/it *Q(K)*) wickedness (and he/she/it *Q(k)*) iniquity: crime judge
For this is a wickednes, and iniquitie to bee condemned:
12 for fire he/she/it till Abaddon to eat and in/on/with all produce my to uproot
Yea, this is a fire that shall deuoure to destruction, and which shall roote out al mine increase,
13 if to reject justice servant/slave my and maidservant my in/on/with strife their with me me
If I did contemne the iudgement of my seruant, and of my mayde, when they did contend 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 standeth vp? and when he shall visit me, what shall I answere?
15 not in/on/with belly: womb to make me to make him and to establish: make him in/on/with womb one
He that hath made me in the wombe, hath he not made him? hath not he alone facioned vs in the wombe?
16 if to withhold from pleasure poor and eye widow to end: expend
If I restrained the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the widow to faile,
17 and to eat morsel my to/for alone me and not to eat orphan from her
Or haue eaten my morsels alone, and the fatherles hath not eaten thereof,
18 for from youth my to magnify me like/as father and from belly: womb mother my to lead her
(For from my youth hee hath growen vp with me as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue bene a guide vnto her)
19 if to see: see to perish from without clothing and nothing covering to/for needy
If I haue seene any perish for want of clothing, or any poore without couering,
20 if not to bless me (loin his *Q(K)*) and from fleece lamb my to warm
If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe,
21 if to wave upon orphan hand: power my for to see: see in/on/with gate help my
If I haue lift vp mine hande against the fatherlesse, when I saw that I might helpe him in the gate,
22 shoulder my from shoulder [to] to fall: fall and arm my from branch: shoulder her to break
Let mine arme fal from my shoulder, and mine arme be broken from the bone.
23 for dread to(wards) me calamity God and from elevation his not be able
For Gods punishment was fearefull vnto me, and I could not be deliuered from his highnes.
24 if to set: make gold loin my and to/for gold to say confidence my
If I made gold mine hope, or haue sayd to the wedge of golde, Thou art my confidence,
25 if to rejoice for many strength: rich my and for mighty to find hand my
If I reioyced because my substance was great, or because mine hand had gotten much,
26 if to see: see light for to shine and moon precious to go: walk
If I did behold the sunne, when it shined, or the moone, walking in her brightnes,
27 and to entice in/on/with secrecy heart my and to kiss hand my to/for lip my
If mine heart did flatter me in secrete, or if my mouth did kisse mine hand,
28 also he/she/it iniquity: crime judge for to deceive to/for God from above
(This also had bene an iniquitie to be condemned: for I had denied the God aboue)
29 if to rejoice in/on/with disaster to hate me and to rouse for to find him bad: evil
If I reioyced at his destruction that hated me, or was mooued to ioye when euill came vpon him,
30 and not to give: allow to/for to sin palate my to/for to ask in/on/with oath soul: life his
Neither haue I suffred my mouth to sinne, by wishing a curse vnto his soule.
31 if not to say man tent my who? to give: allow from flesh his not to satisfy
Did not the men of my Tabernacle say, Who shall giue vs of his flesh? we can not bee satisfied.
32 in/on/with outside not to lodge sojourner door my to/for way to open
The stranger did not lodge in the streete, but I opened my doores vnto him, that went by the way.
33 if to cover like/as Adam transgression my to/for to hide in/on/with breast my iniquity: crime my
If I haue hid my sinne, as Adam, concealing mine iniquitie in my bosome,
34 for to tremble crowd many and contempt family to to be dismayed me and to silence: silent not to come out: come entrance
Though I could haue made afraid a great multitude, yet the most contemptible of the families did feare me: so I kept silence, and went not out of the doore.
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 some to heare me! beholde my signe that the Almightie will witnesse for me: though mine aduersary should write a booke against me,
36 if: surely yes not upon shoulder my to lift: bear him to bind him crown to/for me
Woulde not I take it vpon my shoulder, and binde it as a crowne vnto me?
37 number step my to tell him like leader to present: come him
I will tell him the nomber of my goings, and goe vnto him as to a prince.
38 if upon me land: soil my to cry out and unitedness furrow her to weep [emph?]
If my lande cry against me, or the furrowes thereof complayne together,
39 if strength her to eat without silver: money and soul: life master her to breathe
If I haue eaten the fruites thereof without siluer: or if I haue grieued the soules of the masters thereof,
40 underneath: instead wheat to come out: issue thistle and underneath: instead barley foul weed to finish word Job
Let thistles growe in steade of wheate, and cockle in the stead of Barley. The wordes of Iob are ended.
