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Job 31 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Job 31:1

Job 31:1A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what -- do I attend to a virgin?

Job 31:2

Job 31:2And what is the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights?

Job 31:3

Job 31:3Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?

Job 31:4

Job 31:4Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number?

Job 31:5

Job 31:5If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit,

Job 31:6

Job 31:6He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity.

Job 31:7

Job 31:7If 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

Job 31:8Let me sow -- and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.

Job 31:9

Job 31:9If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,

Job 31:10

Job 31:10Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.

Job 31:11

Job 31:11For it is a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity;

Job 31:12

Job 31:12For a fire it is, to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,

Job 31:13

Job 31:13If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me,

Job 31:14

Job 31:14Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?

Job 31:15

Job 31:15Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.

Job 31:16

Job 31:16If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

Job 31:17

Job 31:17And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,

Job 31:18

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

Job 31:19If I see any perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,

Job 31:20

Job 31:20If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,

Job 31:21

Job 31:21If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court,

Job 31:22

Job 31:22My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.

Job 31:23

Job 31:23For a dread unto me is calamity from God, And because of His excellency I am not able.

Job 31:24

Job 31:24If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, 'My trust,'

Job 31:25

Job 31:25If I rejoice because great is my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found,

Job 31:26

Job 31:26If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking,

Job 31:27

Job 31:27And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth,

Job 31:28

Job 31:28It also is a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above.

Job 31:29

Job 31:29If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

Job 31:30

Job 31:30Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life.

Job 31:31

Job 31:31If not -- say ye, O men of my tent, 'O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.'

Job 31:32

Job 31:32In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.

Job 31:33

Job 31:33If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity,

Job 31:34

Job 31:34Because 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

Job 31:35Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.

Job 31:36

Job 31:36If not -- on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself.

Job 31:37

Job 31:37The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him.

Job 31:38

Job 31:38If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep,

Job 31:39

Job 31:39If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,

Job 31:40

Job 31:40Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.
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