1 A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what — do I attend to a virgin? YLT — Job 31:1
2 And what [is] the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights? YLT — Job 31:2
3 Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity? YLT — Job 31:3
4 Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number? YLT — Job 31:4
5 If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit, YLT — Job 31:5
6 He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity. YLT — Job 31:6
7 If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish, YLT — Job 31:7
8 Let me sow — and another eat, And my products let be rooted out. YLT — Job 31:8
9 If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait, YLT — Job 31:9
10 Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend. YLT — Job 31:10
11 For it [is] a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity; YLT — Job 31:11
12 For a fire it [is], to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root, YLT — Job 31:12
13 If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me, YLT — Job 31:13
14 Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him? YLT — Job 31:14
15 Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One. YLT — Job 31:15
16 If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume, YLT — Job 31:16
17 And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it, YLT — Job 31:17
18 (But from my youth He grew up with me as [with] a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.) YLT — Job 31:18
19 If I see [any] perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy, YLT — Job 31:19
20 If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself, YLT — Job 31:20
21 If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in [him] the gate of my court, YLT — Job 31:21
22 My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken. YLT — Job 31:22
23 For a dread unto me [is] calamity [from] God, And because of His excellency I am not able. YLT — Job 31:23
24 If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, ‘My trust,’ YLT — Job 31:24
25 If I rejoice because great [is] my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found, YLT — Job 31:25
26 If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking, YLT — Job 31:26
27 And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth, YLT — Job 31:27
28 It also [is] a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above. YLT — Job 31:28
29 If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him, YLT — Job 31:29
30 Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life. YLT — Job 31:30
31 If not — say ye, O men of my tent, ‘O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.’ YLT — Job 31:31
32 In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open. YLT — Job 31:32
33 If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity, YLT — Job 31:33
34 Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening. YLT — Job 31:34
35 Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written. YLT — Job 31:35
36 If not — on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself. YLT — Job 31:36
37 The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him. YLT — Job 31:37
38 If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep, YLT — Job 31:38
39 If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out, YLT — Job 31:39
40 Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished. YLT — Job 31:40