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, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
2 and what? portion god from above and inheritance Almighty from height
For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from Shaddai on high?
3 not calamity to/for unjust and misfortune to/for to work evil: wickedness
Is it not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for evildoers?
4 not he/she/it to see: see way: conduct my and all step my to recount
Doesn't 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 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, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement 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 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 has been enticed to a woman, and 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 let my wife grind for another, and let others 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. Yes, 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 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 have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female 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 rises up? 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 who made me in the womb make him? Did not the same 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 has not eaten of it
18 for from youth my to magnify me like/as father and from belly: womb mother my to lead her
(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, 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 heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;
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 my 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. Because 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, 'You are 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 seen the sun when it shined, 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
and my heart has been 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 also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who 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 who 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
(yes, I have not allowed 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 who has not been filled with his meat?'
32 in/on/with outside not to lodge sojourner door my to/for way to open
(the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors 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 like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity 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 feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not 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 that I had one to hear me. (look, here is my signature, let Shaddai answer me); let the accuser write my 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 I would bind it to me as a crown.
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 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 eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
40 underneath: instead wheat to come out: issue thistle and underneath: instead barley foul weed to finish word Job
let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.
