Job 31
1 “I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
covenant to cut: make(covenant) to/for eye my and what? to understand upon virgin
2 For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?
and what? portion god from above and inheritance Almighty from height
3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
not calamity to/for unjust and misfortune to/for to work evil: wickedness
4 Doesn’t 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 falsehood, and my foot has hurried 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 has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck 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. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
to sow and another to eat and offspring my to uproot
9 “If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,
if to entice heart my upon woman and upon entrance neighbor my to ambush
10 then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.
to grind to/for another woman: wife my and upon her to bow [emph?] another
11 For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges,
for (he/she/it *Qk) wickedness (and he/she/it *Qk) iniquity: crime judge
12 for it is a fire that consumes 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 have despised the cause of my male servant or of my 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 will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?
and what? to make: do for to arise: rise God and for to reckon: visit what? to return: reply him
15 Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t 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 alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
and to eat morsel my to/for alone me and not to eat orphan from her
18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, 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 that the needy had no covering;
if to see: see to perish from without clothing and nothing covering to/for needy
20 if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;
if not to bless me (loin his *QK) and from fleece lamb my to warm
21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because 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 shoulder fall from the 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 calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.
for dread to(wards) me calamity God and from elevation his not be able
24 “If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are 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 gotten much;
if to rejoice for many strength: rich my and for mighty to find hand my
26 if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,
if to see: see light for to shine and moon precious to go: walk
27 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth;
and to entice in/on/with secrecy heart my and to kiss hand my to/for lip my
28 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have denied the God who 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 who hated me, or 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 (I have certainly not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);
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, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’
if not to say man tent my who? to give: allow from flesh his not to satisfy
32 (the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
in/on/with outside not to lodge sojourner door my to/for way to open
33 if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
if to cover like/as Adam transgression my to/for to hide in/on/with breast my iniquity: crime my
34 because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go 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 oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!
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 carry it on my shoulder, and I would bind it to me as a crown.
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. I would go near to him like a prince.
number step my to tell him like leader to present: come him
38 If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;
if upon me land: soil my to cry out and unitedness furrow her to weep [emph?]
39 if I have eaten its fruits 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 briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed 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
