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| Job 31:1 | I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin. | I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin? | I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin? | A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what do I attend to a virgin? |
| Job 31:2 | For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high? | For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high? | For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven? | And what [is] the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights? |
| Job 31:3 | Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity? | Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity? | Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers? | Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity? |
| Job 31:4 | Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps? | Doth not he see my ways, And number all my steps? | Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered? | Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number? |
| Job 31:5 | If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit: | If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to deceit | If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit; | If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit, |
| Job 31:6 | Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity. | (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity); | (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:) | He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity. |
| Job 31:7 | If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands: | 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: | If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands; | If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish, |
| Job 31:8 | Then let me sow and let another eat: and let my offspring be rooted out. | Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out. | Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted. | Let me sow and another eat, And my products let be rooted out. |
| Job 31:9 | If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door: | If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door; | If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door; | If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait, |
| Job 31:10 | Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her. | Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her. | Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body. | Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend. |
| Job 31:11 | For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity. | For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges: | For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges: | For it [is] a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity; |
| Job 31:12 | It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring. | For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase. | It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce. | For a fire it [is], to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root, |
| Job 31:13 | If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me: | If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me; | If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me; | If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me, |
| Job 31:14 | For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him? | What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? | What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions? | Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him? |
| Job 31:15 | Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb? | Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? | Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies? | Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One. |
| Job 31:16 | If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait: | If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, | If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose; | If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume, |
| Job 31:17 | If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof: | Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof | If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father; | And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it, |
| Job 31:18 | (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb :) | (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother's womb); | (For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;) | (But from my youth He grew up with me as [with] a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.) |
| Job 31:19 | If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering: | If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering; | If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him; | If I see [any] perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy, |
| Job 31:20 | If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep: | If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep; | If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm; | If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself, |
| Job 31:21 | If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate: | If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate: | If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges; | If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in [him] the gate of my court, |
| Job 31:22 | Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken. | Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone. | May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base. | My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken. |
| Job 31:23 | For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear. | For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing. | For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things. | For a dread unto me [is] calamity [from] God, And because of His excellency I am not able. |
| Job 31:24 | If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence: | If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, [Thou art] my confidence; | If I made gold my hope, or if I ever said to the best gold, I have put my faith in you; | If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, `My trust,` |
| Job 31:25 | If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much. | If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much; | If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store; | If I rejoice because great [is] my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found, |
| Job 31:26 | If I beheld the sun when it shined, and the moon going in brightness: | If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness, | If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way, | If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking, |
| Job 31:27 | And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth: | And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand: | A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth; | And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth, |
| Job 31:28 | Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God. | This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above. | That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high. | It also [is] a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above. |
| Job 31:29 | If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him. | If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him; | If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him; | If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him, |
| Job 31:30 | For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul. | (Yea, I have not suffered by mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse); | (For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;) | Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life. |
| Job 31:31 | If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled? | If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat? | If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat? | If not say ye, O men of my tent, `O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.` |
| Job 31:32 | The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller. | (The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller); | The traveller did not take his night's rest in the street, and my doors were open to anyone on a journey; | In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open. |
| Job 31:33 | If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom. | If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom, | If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast, | If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity, |
| Job 31:34 | If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and I have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door. | Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door- | For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door; | Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening. |
| Job 31:35 | Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth would write a book, | 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! | If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing! | Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written. |
| Job 31:36 | That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown? | Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown: | Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown; | If not on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself. |
| Job 31:37 | At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince. | I would declare unto him the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near unto him. | I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended. | The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him. |
| Job 31:38 | If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn: | If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together; | If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow; | If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep, |
| Job 31:39 | If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof: | If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: | If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners; | If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out, |
| Job 31:40 | Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley. | Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. | Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants. | Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished. |
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