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| 1. | I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? | "I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman? | I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin? | ||
| 2. | For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? | For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high? | For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven? | ||
| 3. | Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? | Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity? | Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers? | ||
| 4. | Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? | Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps? | Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered? | ||
| 5. | If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; | "If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit | If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit; | ||
| 6. | Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity. | (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity); | (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:) | ||
| 7. | If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands; | if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands, | If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands; | ||
| 8. | Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out. | then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out. | Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted. | ||
| 9. | If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; | "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door, | If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door; | ||
| 10. | Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. | then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her. | Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body. | ||
| 11. | For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. | For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges: | For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges: | ||
| 12. | For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. | For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase. | It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce. | ||
| 13. | If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; | "If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me; | If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me; | ||
| 14. | What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? | What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him? | What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions? | ||
| 15. | Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? | Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion us in the womb? | Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies? | ||
| 16. | If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; | "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, | If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose; | ||
| 17. | Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; | or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it | If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father; | ||
| 18. | (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) | (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb); | (For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;) | ||
| 19. | If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; | if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; | If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him; | ||
| 20. | If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; | if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece; | If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm; | ||
| 21. | If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: | if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, | If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges; | ||
| 22. | Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. | then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone. | May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base. | ||
| 23. | For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. | For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing. | For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things. | ||
| 24. | If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; | "If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;' | If I made gold my hope, or if I ever said to the best gold, I have put my faith in you; | ||
| 25. | If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; | If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much; | If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store; | ||
| 26. | If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; | if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor, | If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way, | ||
| 27. | And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: | and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth, | A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth; | ||
| 28. | This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. | this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above. | That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high. | ||
| 29. | If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: | "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him; | If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him; | ||
| 30. | Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. | (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse); | (For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;) | ||
| 31. | If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. | if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?' | If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat? | ||
| 32. | The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller. | (the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler); | The traveller did not take his night's rest in the street, and my doors were open to anyone on a journey; | ||
| 33. | If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: | if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart, | If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast, | ||
| 34. | Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door? | because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn't go out of the door-- | For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door; | ||
| 35. | Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. | oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment! | If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing! | ||
| 36. | Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. | Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown. | Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown; | ||
| 37. | I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him. | I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him. | I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended. | ||
| 38. | If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; | If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together; | If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow; | ||
| 39. | If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: | if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life, | If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners; | ||
| 40. | Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. | let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended. | Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants. | ||