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

Job 31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes, and I will not think upon a virgin.

Job 31:2Now what portion has God given from above? and is there an inheritance given of the Mighty One from the highest?

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Job 31:3Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity.

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Job 31:4Will he not see my way, and number all my steps?

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Job 31:5But if I had gone with scorners, and if too my foot has hasted to deceit:

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Job 31:6(for I am weighed in a just balance, and the Lord knows my innocence:)

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Job 31:7if 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;

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Job 31:8then let me sow, and let others eat; and let me be uprooted on the earth.

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Job 31:9If my heart has gone forth after another man's wife, and if I laid wait at her doors;

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Job 31:10then let my wife also please another, and let my children be brought low.

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Job 31:11For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, in the case of defiling another man's wife.

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Job 31:12For it is a fire burning on every side, and whomsoever it attacks, it utterly destroys.

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Job 31:13And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or my handmaid, when they pleaded with me;

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Job 31:14what then shall I do if the Lord should try me? and if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer?

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Job 31:15Were not they too formed as I also was formed in the womb? yea, we were formed in the same womb.

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Job 31:16But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail.

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Job 31:17And if too I ate my morsel alone, and did not impart of it to the orphan;

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Job 31:18(for I nourished them as a father from my youth, and guided them from my mother's womb.)

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Job 31:19And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him;

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Job 31:20and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;

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Job 31:21if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior to his:

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Job 31:22let then my shoulder start from the blade-bone, and my arm be crushed off from the elbow.

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Job 31:23For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I cannot bear up by reason of his burden.

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Job 31:24If I made gold my treasure, and if too I trusted the precious stone;

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Job 31:25and if too I rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, and if too I laid my hand on innumerable treasures:

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Job 31:26(do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, and the moon waning? for they have not power to continue:)

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Job 31:27and if my heart was secretly deceived, and if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it:

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Job 31:28let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: for I should have lied against the Lord Most High.

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Job 31:29And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies, and mine heart said, Aha!

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Job 31:30let then mine ear hear my curse, and let me be a by-word among my people in my affliction.

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Job 31:31And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh; (whereas I was very kind:

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Job 31:32for the stranger did not lodge without, and my door was opened to every one that came:)

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Job 31:33or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin;

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Job 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:

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Job 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,

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Job 31:36I would place it as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it.

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Job 31:37And if I did not read it and return it, having taken nothing from the debtor:

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Job 31:38If at any time the land groaned against me, and if its furrows mourned together;

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Job 31:39and 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:

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Job 31:40then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, and a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.

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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