Job 31:1

A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what -- do I attend to a virgin?

Job 31:2

And what `is' the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights?

Job 31:3

Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?

Job 31:4

Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number?

Job 31:5

If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit,

Job 31:6

He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity.

Job 31:7

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

Let me sow -- and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.

Job 31:9

If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,

Job 31:10

Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.

Job 31:11

For it `is' a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity;

Job 31:12

For a fire it `is', to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,

Job 31:13

If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me,

Job 31:14

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? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.

Job 31:16

If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

Job 31:17

And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,

Job 31:18

(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 see `any' perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,

Job 31:20

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 waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in `him' the gate of my court,

Job 31:22

My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.

Job 31:23

For a dread unto me `is' calamity `from' God, And because of His excellency I am not able.

Job 31:24

If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, `My trust,'

Job 31:25

If I rejoice because great `is' my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found,

Job 31:26

If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking,

Job 31:27

And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth,

Job 31:28

It also `is' a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above.

Job 31:29

If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

Job 31:30

Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life.

Job 31:31

If not -- say ye, O men of my tent, `O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.'

Job 31:32

In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.

Job 31:33

If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity,

Job 31:34

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 giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.

Job 31:36

If not -- on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself.

Job 31:37

The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him.

Job 31:38

If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep,

Job 31:39

If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,

Job 31:40

Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.