Job 31

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

A covenant had I made with my eyes: how then should I fix my look on a virgin?

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

And what then would have been my portion of God from above? and what lot of the Almighty from on high?

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

Is not calamity [ready] for the unjust? and misfortune for the wrong-doers?

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

Behold, he truly seeth my ways, and numbereth all my steps;

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

[And knoweth] whether I have walked with vain desires, or if my foot hath hastened after deceit.

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

Let him weigh me then in a righteous balance, and let God acknowledge 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 have turned aside from the [proper] way, and my heart have walked after my eyes, and if any blemish have cleaved to my hands:

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

Then let me sow, and let another eat; and let what I have growing be rooted out.

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

If my heart have been beguiled toward a woman, or if I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door:

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

Then may my wife labor at the mill for another, and may strangers ill-use her;

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

For this would be incest; yea, it would be 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 would be a fire that consumeth down to the place of corruption, and would root out all my products.

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

If ever I cast aside the justice due to my man-servant and 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 could I do when God should rise up? and when he should investigate, what could 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 make him born or a woman? and did not the same one fashion us in the womb?

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

If ever I denied the wish of the indigent, or ever allowed the eyes of the widow to fall [in vain hopes];

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

Or if ever I ate my bread by myself alone, and the fatherless did not eat 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 though we were of one father, and I have guided her [as though she was sprung] from my mother's womb; )

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

If ever I saw any one perishing for want of clothing, or the needy 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 have 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 swung my hand against the fatherless, because I saw in the gate those that would help me:

22 shoulder my from shoulder [to] to fall: fall and arm my from branch: shoulder her to break

Then may my shoulder fall from my shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the channel-bone;

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

For dreaded by me was the calamitous punishment of God, and against his highness I can accomplish nothing.

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

If I have made gold my confidence, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my trust:

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

If ever I rejoiced because my wealth was abundant, and because my hand had gotten much;

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

If ever I looked at the light [of the sun] when he shone brightly and on the moon walking in splendor:

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

And my heart became misled in secret, and my hand kissed my mouth:

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 thus would I 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 ever I rejoiced at the downfall of him that hated me, or was elated 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

But I suffered not my mouth to sin by denouncing with a curse 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 tent said not, Oh is there one that is not satisfied of his flesh; —

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

In the street a stranger had not to lodge; my doors I held open to the roadside;

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

If I covered up my transgressions like a common man, by hiding in my bosom my iniquity;

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 dreaded the great multitude, or because the contempt of families did terrify me, so that I kept silence, and dared not to go 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 who will bring me one that would hear me! behold, here is my plea; may the Almighty answer me; and any record which my opponent may have written, —

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

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

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

The number of my steps would I tell him: as [to] 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 ever cried out because of me, or if its furrows wept together;

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

If I ever consumed its strength without payment, or caused the soul of its owners to grieve:

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

Then may instead of wheat, thorns come forth, and instead of barley, cockle. (Here end the words of Job.)