Job 31
1 covenant to cut: make(covenant) to/for eye my and what? to understand upon virgin
I vowed to myself never to look with desire at young women.
2 and what? portion god from above and inheritance Almighty from height
What should people expect to receive from God? What reward should the Almighty on high give them?
3 not calamity to/for unjust and misfortune to/for to work evil: wickedness
Isn't it disaster for the wicked and destruction for those who do wrong?
4 not he/she/it to see: see way: conduct my and all step my to recount
Doesn't God see everything I do—even count every step I take?
5 if to go: walk with vanity: false and to hasten upon deceit foot my
Have I lived a deceitful life? Have I been eager to tell lies?
6 to weigh me in/on/with balance righteousness and to know god integrity my
No! Let God weigh me on the scales of his justice and let him discover 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 I have wandered from God's way, if I have let what I see become my desires, if there's any stain of sin on my hands,
8 to sow and another to eat and offspring my to uproot
then let someone else eat what I have sown, and all that I have grown be uprooted.
9 if to entice heart my upon woman and upon entrance neighbor my to ambush
If a woman has seduced me, or if I have looked for an opportunity to sleep with my neighbor's wife,
10 to grind to/for another woman: wife my and upon her to bow [emph?] another
then let my wife serve another, let other men sleep with her.
11 for (he/she/it *Qk) wickedness (and he/she/it *Qk) iniquity: crime judge
For that would be wicked, a sin deserving punishment,
12 for fire he/she/it till Abaddon to eat and in/on/with all produce my to uproot
for this sin is like a fire that leads to destruction, destroying everything I have.
13 if to reject justice servant/slave my and maidservant my in/on/with strife their with me me
If I had refused to listen to my menservants or maidservants when they brought their complaints to me,
14 and what? to make: do for to arise: rise God and for to reckon: visit what? to return: reply him
what would I do when God came to judge me? How would I reply if he investigated me?
15 not in/on/with belly: womb to make me to make him and to establish: make him in/on/with womb one
Didn't the same God make all of us?
16 if to withhold from pleasure poor and eye widow to end: expend
Have I refused to give the poor what they needed, or caused widows to despair?
17 and to eat morsel my to/for alone me and not to eat orphan from her
Have I even eaten just a piece of bread by myself? Haven't I always shared my food with orphans?
18 for from youth my to magnify me like/as father and from belly: womb mother my to lead her
From when I was young I was a father to orphans and took care of widows.
19 if to see: see to perish from without clothing and nothing covering to/for needy
If ever I saw someone needing clothes, the poor without anything to wear,
20 if not to bless me (loin his *QK) and from fleece lamb my to warm
they always thanked me for the wool clothing that kept them warm.
21 if to wave upon orphan hand: power my for to see: see in/on/with gate help my
If I raised my hand to hit an orphan, confident that if it came to court the judges would be on my side,
22 shoulder my from shoulder [to] to fall: fall and arm my from branch: shoulder her to break
then let my shoulder be pulled from its joint, my arm wrenched out of its socket.
23 for dread to(wards) me calamity God and from elevation his not be able
Since I'm terrified of what punishment God may have in store for me, and because of his majesty, I could never do this.
24 if to set: make gold loin my and to/for gold to say confidence my
Have I put my trust in gold, calling fine gold, ‘My security’?
25 if to rejoice for many strength: rich my and for mighty to find hand my
Have I delighted in being rich, happy at all my wealth I had gained?
26 if to see: see light for to shine and moon precious to go: walk
Have I looked at the sun shining so brilliantly or the moon moving in majesty across the sky
27 and to entice in/on/with secrecy heart my and to kiss hand my to/for lip my
and been tempted to secretly worship them by kissing my hand to them in devotion?
28 also he/she/it iniquity: crime judge for to deceive to/for God from above
This too would be a sin deserving punishment for it would mean I had denied God above.
29 if to rejoice in/on/with disaster to hate me and to rouse for to find him bad: evil
Have I ever been happy when disaster destroyed those who hated me, or celebrated when evil took them down?
30 and not to give: allow to/for to sin palate my to/for to ask in/on/with oath soul: life his
I have never allowed my mouth to sin by putting a curse on someone's life.
31 if not to say man tent my who? to give: allow from flesh his not to satisfy
Haven't my family asked, ‘Is there anyone who has not eaten as much as they wanted of his food?’
32 in/on/with outside not to lodge sojourner door my to/for way to open
I have never let strangers sleep in the street; I have opened my doors to travelers.
33 if to cover like/as Adam transgression my to/for to hide in/on/with breast my iniquity: crime my
Have I concealed my sins from others, hiding my wrongdoing deep inside me?
34 for to tremble crowd many and contempt family to to be dismayed me and to silence: silent not to come out: come entrance
Was I afraid of what everybody else would think, scared of the contempt families would show me, so that I kept quiet and didn't go outside?
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
Why won't anyone listen to what I'm saying! I'm signing my name to endorse everything I've said. Let the Almighty answer me. Let my accuser write down what he is charging me with.
36 if: surely yes not upon shoulder my to lift: bear him to bind him crown to/for me
I would hold them up high; I would wear them on my head like a crown.
37 number step my to tell him like leader to present: come him
I would explain to him everything I'd done; I would hold my head high before him.
38 if upon me land: soil my to cry out and unitedness furrow her to weep [emph?]
If my land has cried out against me; if her furrows have wept over me;
39 if strength her to eat without silver: money and soul: life master her to breathe
if I have taken its crops without payment or if I have caused harm to the farmers;
40 underneath: instead wheat to come out: issue thistle and underneath: instead barley foul weed to finish word Job
then let thorns grow instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
