Job 31

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hurried 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 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 step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot has stuck to my hands;

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

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

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

If my heart have been deceived by a woman, or if 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 to another, and let others bow down on her.

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

For this is an heinous crime; yes, it is 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 consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

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

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, 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 rises up? and when he visits, 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 myself alone, and the fatherless has 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 he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her 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 any poor without 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 were not 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, when 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 arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

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

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

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

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

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

If I rejoice 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 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 has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has 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 judge: 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 rejoice 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.