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Job 31 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:1 - I made a covenant with mine eyes, and I will not think upon a virgin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:2 - Now what portion has God given from above? and is there an inheritance given of the Mighty One from the highest?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:3 - Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:4 - Will he not see my way, and number all my steps?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:5 - But if I had gone with scorners, and if too my foot has hasted to deceit:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:6 - (for I am weighed in a just balance, and the Lord knows my innocence:)
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:7 - if my foot has turned aside out of the way, or if mine heart has followed mine eye, and if too I have touched gifts with my hands;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:8 - then let me sow, and let others eat; and let me be uprooted on the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:9 - If my heart has gone forth after another man's wife, and if I laid wait at her doors;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:10 - then let my wife also please another, and let my children be brought low.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:11 - For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, in the case of defiling another man's wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:12 - For it is a fire burning on every side, and whomsoever it attacks, it utterly destroys.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:13 - And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or my handmaid, when they pleaded with me;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:14 - what then shall I do if the Lord should try me? and if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:15 - Were not they too formed as I also was formed in the womb? yea, we were formed in the same womb.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:16 - But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:17 - And if too I ate my morsel alone, and did not impart of it to the orphan;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:18 - (for I nourished them as a father from my youth, and guided them from my mother's womb.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:19 - And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:20 - and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:21 - if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior to his:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:22 - let then my shoulder start from the blade-bone, and my arm be crushed off from the elbow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:23 - For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I cannot bear up by reason of his burden.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:24 - If I made gold my treasure, and if too I trusted the precious stone;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:25 - and if too I rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, and if too I laid my hand on innumerable treasures:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:26 - (do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, and the moon waning? for they have not power to continue:)
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:27 - and if my heart was secretly deceived, and if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:28 - let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: for I should have lied against the Lord Most High.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:29 - And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies, and mine heart said, Aha!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:30 - let then mine ear hear my curse, and let me be a by-word among my people in my affliction.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:31 - And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh; (whereas I was very kind:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:32 - for the stranger did not lodge without, and my door was opened to every one that came:)
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:33 - or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:34 - (for I did not stand in awe of a great multitude, so as not to declare boldly before them:) and if too I permitted a poor man to go out of my door with an empty bosom:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:35 - (Oh that I had a hearer,) and if I had not feared the hand of the Lord; and as to the written charge which I had against any one,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:36 - I would place it as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:37 - And if I did not read it and return it, having taken nothing from the debtor:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:38 - If at any time the land groaned against me, and if its furrows mourned together;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:39 - and if I ate its strength alone without price, and if too I grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking aught from him:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:40 - then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, and a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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