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and is there an inheritance <i>given</i> of the Mighty One from the highest?<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Will he not see my way, and number all my steps?<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But if I had gone with scorners, and if too my foot has hasted to deceit:<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>(for I am weighed in a just balance, and the Lord knows my innocence:)<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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;<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>then let me sow, and let others eat; and let me be uprooted on the earth.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If my heart has gone forth after another man's wife, and if I laid wait at her doors;<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>then let my wife also please another, and let my children be brought low.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, <i>in the case</i> of defiling <i>another</i> man's wife.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For it is a fire burning on every side, and whomsoever it attacks, it utterly destroys.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or <i>my</i> handmaid, when they pleaded with me;<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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?<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Were not they too formed as I also was formed in the womb? yea, we were formed in the same womb.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And if too I ate my morsel alone, and did not impart <i>of it</i> to the orphan;<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>(for I nourished <i>them</i> as a father from my youth and guided <i>them</i> from my mother's womb.)<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him;<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were <i>not</i> warmed with the fleece of my lambs;<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior <i>to his</i>:<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>let them my shoulder start from the blade-bone, and my arm be crushed off from the elbow.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I cannot bear up by reason of his burden.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>If I made gold my treasure, and if too I trusted the precious stone;<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>and if too I rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, and if too I laid my hand on innumerable <i>treasures</i>:<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>(do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, and the moon waning? for they have not <i>power to continue</i>:)<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and if my heart was secretly deceived, and if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it:<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: for I <i>should</i> have lied against the Lord Most High.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies, and mine heart said, Aha!<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>let then mine ear hear my curse, and let me be a byword among my people in my affliction.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh; (whereas I was very kind:<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>for the stranger did not lodge without, and my door was opened to every one that came:)<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin;<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>(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:<p> <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>(Oh that I had a hearer,) and if I had not feared the hand of the Lord; and <i>as to</i> the written charge which I had against any one,<p> <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>I would place <i>it</i> as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it.<p> <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And if I did not read it and return it, having taken nothing from the debtor:<p> <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>If at any time the land groaned against me, and if its furrows mourned together;<p> <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>and if I ate its strength alone without price, and if I too grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking <i>aught</i> from <i>him</i>:<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, and a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/30.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 30"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 30" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/32.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 32"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 32" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>