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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 an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on 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 God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven? |
| Job 31:3 | Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity? | Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers? |
| Job 31:4 | Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps? | Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered? |
| Job 31:5 | If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit: | If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit; |
| Job 31:6 | Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity. | (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:) |
| 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 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; |
| Job 31:8 | Then let me sow and let another eat: and let my offspring be rooted out. | Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted. |
| 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 went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door; |
| Job 31:10 | Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her. | Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body. |
| Job 31:11 | For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity. | For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges: |
| Job 31:12 | It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring. | It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce. |
| 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 did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law 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 will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions? |
| 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 God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies? |
| Job 31:16 | If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait: | If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose; |
| Job 31:17 | If I 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; |
| Job 31:18 | (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me 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;) |
| 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 saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him; |
| Job 31:20 | If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not 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; |
| Job 31:21 | If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior 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; |
| Job 31:22 | Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken. | May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base. |
| Job 31:23 | For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear. | For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things. |
| Job 31:24 | If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence: | If I made gold my hope, or if I ever said to the best gold, I have put my faith in you; |
| Job 31:25 | If I have rejoiced over my great riches, 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; |
| Job 31:26 | If I beheld the sun when it shined, and the moon going in brightness: | If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way, |
| Job 31:27 | And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth: | A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth; |
| Job 31:28 | Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God. | That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high. |
| 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 was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him; |
| Job 31:30 | For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul. | (For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on 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 did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat? |
| Job 31:32 | The stranger did not stay without, my door was open 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; |
| Job 31:33 | If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom. | If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast, |
| 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. | 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; |
| 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, | 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! |
| Job 31:36 | That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown? | Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown; |
| Job 31:37 | At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince. | I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended. |
| Job 31:38 | If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn: | If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow; |
| Job 31:39 | If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof: | If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners; |
| Job 31:40 | Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley. | Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants. |
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