Job 31
1 covenant to cut: make(covenant) to/for eye my and what? to understand upon virgin
I made a covenant with mine eyes; how then should I look upon a maid?
2 and what? portion god from above and inheritance Almighty from height
For what would be the portion of God from above, and the heritage of the Almighty from on high?
3 not calamity to/for unjust and misfortune to/for to work evil: wickedness
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
4 not he/she/it to see: see way: conduct my and all step my to recount
Doth not He see my ways, and count all my steps?
5 if to go: walk with vanity: false and to hasten upon deceit foot my
If I have walked with vanity, and my foot hath hasted to deceit —
6 to weigh me in/on/with balance righteousness and to know god integrity my
Let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know mine 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 hath turned out of the way, and my heart walked after mine eyes, and if any spot hath cleaved to my hands;
8 to sow and another to eat and offspring my to uproot
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, 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 have been enticed unto a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbour's door;
10 to grind to/for another woman: wife my and upon her to bow [emph?] another
Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
11 for (he/she/it *Qk) wickedness (and he/she/it *Qk) iniquity: crime judge
For that were a heinous crime; yea, it were 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 consumeth unto destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
13 if to reject justice servant/slave my and maidservant my in/on/with strife their with me me
If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, or of 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 shall I do when God riseth up? And when He remembereth, 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 that made me in the womb make him? And did not One fashion us in the womb?
16 if to withhold from pleasure poor and eye widow to end: expend
If I have withheld aught that the poor desired, 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 myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof —
18 for from youth my to magnify me like/as father and from belly: womb mother my to lead her
Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have been her guide 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 wanderer in want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
20 if not to bless me (loin his *QK) and from fleece lamb my to warm
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not 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 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 mine 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 was a terror to me, and by reason of His majesty I could 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: 'Thou art my confidence';
25 if to rejoice for many strength: rich my and for mighty to find hand my
If I 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 beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
27 and to entice in/on/with secrecy heart my and to kiss hand my to/for lip my
And my heart hath been secretly enticed, and my mouth hath kissed my hand;
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 judges; for I should have lied to 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 I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or exulted 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
Yea, I suffered not 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 said not: 'Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat?'
32 in/on/with outside not to lodge sojourner door my to/for way to open
The stranger did not lodge in the street; my doors I opened 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 after the manner of men I covered my transgressions, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom —
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 most contemptible among families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not 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! — Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me — and that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!
36 if: surely yes not upon shoulder my to lift: bear him to bind him crown to/for me
Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown.
37 number step my to tell him like leader to present: come him
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as 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 cry out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together;
39 if strength her to eat without silver: money and soul: life master her to breathe
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the tillers thereof to be disappointed —
40 underneath: instead wheat to come out: issue thistle and underneath: instead barley foul weed to finish word Job
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and noisome weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
