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

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

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