Job 31
1 I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
covenant to cut: make(covenant) to/for eye my and what? to understand upon virgin
2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
and what? portion god from above and inheritance Almighty from height
3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
not calamity to/for unjust and misfortune to/for to work evil: wickedness
4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
not he/she/it to see: see way: conduct my and all step my to recount
5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
if to go: walk with vanity: false and to hasten upon deceit foot my
6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.
to weigh me in/on/with balance righteousness and to know god integrity my
7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to my hands;
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
8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
to sow and another to eat and offspring my to uproot
9 If my heart hath been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;
if to entice heart my upon woman and upon entrance neighbor my to ambush
10 Then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her.
to grind to/for another woman: wife my and upon her to bow [emph?] another
11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
for (he/she/it *Q(K)*) wickedness (and he/she/it *Q(k)*) iniquity: crime judge
12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
for fire he/she/it till Abaddon to eat and in/on/with all produce my to uproot
13 If I despised the cause of my male or female servant, when they contended with me;
if to reject justice servant/slave my and maidservant my in/on/with strife their with me me
14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
and what? to make: do for to arise: rise God and for to reckon: visit what? to return: reply him
15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
not in/on/with belly: womb to make me to make him and to establish: make him in/on/with womb one
16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
if to withhold from pleasure poor and eye widow to end: expend
17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten of it;
and to eat morsel my to/for alone me and not to eat orphan from her
18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb; )
for from youth my to magnify me like/as father and from belly: womb mother my to lead her
19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
if to see: see to perish from without clothing and nothing covering to/for needy
20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
if not to bless me (loin his *Q(K)*) and from fleece lamb my to warm
21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
if to wave upon orphan hand: power my for to see: see in/on/with gate help my
22 Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
shoulder my from shoulder [to] to fall: fall and arm my from branch: shoulder her to break
23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
for dread to(wards) me calamity God and from elevation his not be able
24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
if to set: make gold loin my and to/for gold to say confidence my
25 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gained much;
if to rejoice for many strength: rich my and for mighty to find hand my
26 If I have beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
if to see: see light for to shine and moon precious to go: walk
27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
and to entice in/on/with secrecy heart my and to kiss hand my to/for lip my
28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
also he/she/it iniquity: crime judge for to deceive to/for God from above
29 If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or have lifted up myself when evil found him:
if to rejoice in/on/with disaster to hate me and to rouse for to find him bad: evil
30 Neither have I allowed my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
and not to give: allow to/for to sin palate my to/for to ask in/on/with oath soul: life his
31 If the men of my tent have not said, O that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
if not to say man tent my who? to give: allow from flesh his not to satisfy
32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
in/on/with outside not to lodge sojourner door my to/for way to open
33 If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:
if to cover like/as Adam transgression my to/for to hide in/on/with breast my iniquity: crime my
34 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?
for to tremble crowd many and contempt family to to be dismayed me and to silence: silent not to come out: come entrance
35 O that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.
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
36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
if: surely yes not upon shoulder my to lift: bear him to bind him crown to/for me
37 I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him.
number step my to tell him like leader to present: come him
38 If my land crieth against me, or its furrows likewise complain;
if upon me land: soil my to cry out and unitedness furrow her to weep [emph?]
39 If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life:
if strength her to eat without silver: money and soul: life master her to breathe
40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
underneath: instead wheat to come out: issue thistle and underneath: instead barley foul weed to finish word Job
