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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 31 YLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/31.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/31-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">YLT</a> > Job 31</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/30.htm" title="Job 30">◄</a> Job 31 <a href="../job/32.htm" title="Job 32">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Young's Literal Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Job's Final Appeal</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what — do I attend to a virgin?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And what [is] the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Let me sow — and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For it [is] a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For a fire it [is], to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>(But from my youth He grew up with me as [with] a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If I see [any] perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in [him] the gate of my court,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For a dread unto me [is] calamity [from] God, And because of His excellency I am not able.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, ‘My trust,’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>If I rejoice because great [is] my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>It also [is] a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>If not — say ye, O men of my tent, ‘O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>If not — on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! 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