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Job 31 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 1 | I reached an agreement with my eyes, that I would not so much as think about a virgin. | “I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin? | “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman. | |
| 2 | For what portion should God from above hold for me, and what inheritance should the Almighty from on high keep? | What would be my portion from God above and my heritage from the Almighty on high? | For what is our lot from God above, our heritage from the Almighty on high? | |
| 3 | Is not destruction held for the wicked and repudiation kept for those who work injustice? | Is not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for the workers of iniquity? | Is it not ruin for the wicked, disaster for those who do wrong? | |
| 4 | Does he not examine my ways and number all my steps? | Does not he see my ways and number all my steps? | Does he not see my ways and count my every step? | |
| 5 | If I have walked in vanity, or if my foot has hurried towards deceitfulness, | “If I have walked with falsehood and my foot has hastened to deceit; | “If I have walked with falsehood or my foot has hurried after deceit— | |
| 6 | let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity. | (Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!) | let God weigh me in honest scales and he will know that I am blameless— | |
| 7 | If my steps have turned aside from the way, or if my heart has followed my eyes, or if a blemish has clung to my hands, | if my step has turned aside from the way and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has stuck to my hands, | if my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has been led by my eyes, or if my hands have been defiled, | |
| 8 | then may I sow, and let another consume, and let my offspring be eradicated. | then let me sow, and another eat, and let what grows for me be rooted out. | then may others eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted. | |
| 9 | If my heart has been deceived over a woman, or if I have waited in ambush at my friend’s door, | “If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door, | “If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door, | |
| 10 | then let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lean over her. | then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down on her. | then may my wife grind another man’s grain, and may other men sleep with her. | |
| 11 | For this is a crime and a very great injustice. | For that would be a heinous crime; that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; | For that would have been wicked, a sin to be judged. | |
| 12 | It is a fire devouring all the way to perdition, and it roots out all that springs forth. | for that would be a fire that consumes as far as Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my increase. | It is a fire that burns to Destruction; it would have uprooted my harvest. | |
| 13 | If I have despised being subject to judgment with my servant or my maid, when they had any complaint against me, | “If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me, | “If I have denied justice to any of my servants, whether male or female, when they had a grievance against me, | |
| 14 | then what will I do when God rises to judge, and, when he inquires, how will I respond to him? | what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? | what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when called to account? | |
| 15 | Is not he who created me in the womb, also he who labored to make him? And did not one and the same form me in the womb? | Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? | Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers? | |
| 16 | If I have denied the poor what they wanted and have made the eyes of the widow wait; | “If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, | “If I have denied the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow grow weary, | |
| 17 | if I have eaten my morsel of food alone, while orphans have not eaten from it; | or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it | if I have kept my bread to myself, not sharing it with the fatherless— | |
| 18 | (for from my infancy mercy grew with me, and it came out with me from my mother’s womb;) | (for from my youth the fatherless grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow), | but from my youth I reared them as a father would, and from my birth I guided the widow— | |
| 19 | if I have looked down on him who was perishing because he had no clothing and the poor without any covering, | if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or the needy without covering, | if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing, or the needy without garments, | |
| 20 | if his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; | if his body has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep, | and their hearts did not bless me for warming them with the fleece from my sheep, | |
| 21 | if I have lifted up my hand over an orphan, even when it might seem to me that I the advantage over him at the gate; | if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, | if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, knowing that I had influence in court, | |
| 22 | then may my shoulder fall from its joint, and may my arm, with all its bones, be broken. | then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket. | then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let it be broken off at the joint. | |
| 23 | For I have always feared God, like waves flowing over me, whose weight I was unable to bear. | For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty. | For I dreaded destruction from God, and for fear of his splendor I could not do such things. | |
| 24 | If I have considered gold to be my strength, or if I have called purified gold ‘my Trust;’ | “If I have made gold my trust or called fine gold my confidence, | “If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’ | |
| 25 | if I have rejoiced over my great success, and over the many things my hand has obtained; | if I have rejoiced because my wealth was abundant or because my hand had found much, | if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained, | |
| 26 | if I gazed upon the sun when it shined and the moon advancing brightly, | if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor, | if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor, | |
| 27 | so that my heart rejoiced in secret and I kissed my hand with my mouth, | and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand, | so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered them a kiss of homage, | |
| 28 | which is a very great iniquity and a denial against the most high God; | this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have been false to God above. | then these also would be sins to be judged, for I would have been unfaithful to God on high. | |
| 29 | if I have been glad at the ruin of him who hated me and have exulted that evil found him, | “If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him who hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him | “If I have rejoiced at my enemy’s misfortune or gloated over the trouble that came to him— | |
| 30 | for I have not been given my throat to sin by asking for a curse on his soul; | (I have not let my mouth sin by asking for his life with a curse), | I have not allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse against their life— | |
| 31 | if the men around my tabernacle have not said: “He might give us some of his food, so that we will be filled,” | if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who is there that has not been filled with his meat?’ | if those of my household have never said, ‘Who has not been filled with Job’s meat?’— | |
| 32 | for the foreigner did not remain at the door, my door was open to the traveler; | (the sojourner has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the traveler), | but no stranger had to spend the night in the street, for my door was always open to the traveler— | |
| 33 | if, as man does, I have hidden my sin and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom; | if I have concealed my transgressions as others do by hiding my iniquity in my heart, | if I have concealed my sin as people do, by hiding my guilt in my heart | |
| 34 | if I became frightened by an excessive crowd, and the disrespect of close relatives alarmed me, so that I would much rather have remained silent or have gone out the door; | because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors— | because I so feared the crowd and so dreaded the contempt of the clans that I kept silent and would not go outside— | |
| 35 | then, would he grant me a hearing, so that the Almighty would listen to my desire, and he who judges would himself write a book, | Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary! | (“Oh, that I had someone to hear me! I sign now my defense—let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser put his indictment in writing. | |
| 36 | which I would then carry on my shoulder and wrap around me like a crown? | Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me as a crown; | Surely I would wear it on my shoulder, I would put it on like a crown. | |
| 37 | With each of my steps, I would pronounce and offer it, as if to a prince. | I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him. | I would give him an account of my every step; I would present it to him as to a ruler.)— | |
| 38 | So, if my land cries out against me, and if its furrows weep with it, | “If my land has cried out against me and its furrows have wept together, | “if my land cries out against me and all its furrows are wet with tears, | |
| 39 | if I have used its fruits for nothing but money and have afflicted the souls of its tillers, | if I have eaten its yield without payment and made its owners breathe their last, | if I have devoured its yield without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants, | |
| 40 | then, may thistles spring forth for me instead of grain, and thorns instead of barley. (This ended the words of Job.) | let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended. | then let briers come up instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended. | |
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