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Job 31 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 1 | I made a covenant with mine eyes, and I will not think upon 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 | Now what portion has God given from above? and is there an inheritance given of the Mighty One from the highest? | 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 | Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity. | 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 | Will he not see my way, 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 | But if I had gone with scorners, and if too my foot has hasted to deceit: | “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 | (for I am weighed in a just balance, and the Lord knows my innocence:) | (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 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; | 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 let me sow, and let others eat; and let me be uprooted on the earth. | 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 gone forth after another man's wife, and if I laid wait at her doors; | “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 also please another, and let my children be brought low. | 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 the rage of anger is not to be controlled, in the case of defiling another man's wife. | 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 | For it is a fire burning on every side, and whomsoever it attacks, it utterly destroys. | 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 | And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or my handmaid, when they pleaded with 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 | 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? | 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 | Were not they too formed as I also was formed in the womb? yea, we were formed in the same 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 | But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail. | “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 | And if too I ate my morsel alone, and did not impart of it to the orphan; | 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 I nourished them as a father from my youth and guided them 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 | And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him; | 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 | and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs; | 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 lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior to his : | 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 | let them my shoulder start from the blade-bone, and my arm be crushed off from the elbow. | 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 the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I cannot bear up by reason of his burden. | 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 made gold my treasure, and if too I trusted the precious stone; | “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 | and if too I rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, and if too I laid my hand on innumerable treasures : | 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 | (do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, and the moon waning? for they have not power to continue :) | 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 | and if my heart was secretly deceived, and if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it: | 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 | let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: for I should have lied against the Lord Most High. | 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 | And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies, and mine heart said, Aha! | “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 | let then mine ear hear my curse, and let me be a byword among my people in my affliction. | (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 | And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh; (whereas I was very kind: | 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 stranger did not lodge without, and my door was opened to every one that came:) | (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 | or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin; | 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 | (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: | 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 | (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, | 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 | I would place it as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it. | 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 | And if I did not read it and return it, having taken nothing from the debtor: | 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 | If at any time the land groaned against me, and if its furrows mourned together; | “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 | and if I ate its strength alone without price, and if I too grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking aught from him : | 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 let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, and a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking. | 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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