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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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I made a covenant with mine eyes;</div><div class="po2">How then should I look upon a maid?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For what would be the portion of God from above,</div><div class="po2">And the heritage of the Almighty from on high?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Is it not calamity to the unrighteous,</div><div class="po2">And disaster to the workers of iniquity?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Doth not He see my ways,</div><div class="po2">And count all my steps?</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If I have walked with vanity,</div><div class="po2">And my foot hath hasted to deceit—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Let me be weighed in a just balance,</div><div class="po2">That God may know mine integrity—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If my step hath turned out of the way,</div><div class="po2">And my heart walked after mine eyes,</div><div class="po2">And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then let me sow, and let another eat;</div><div class="po2">Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If my heart have been enticed unto a woman,</div><div class="po2">And I have lain in wait at my neighbour’s door;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then let my wife grind unto another,</div><div class="po2">And let others bow down upon her.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For that were a heinous crime;</div><div class="po2">Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For it is a fire that consumeth unto destruction,</div><div class="po2">And would root out all mine increase.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>If I did despise the cause of my man-servant,</div><div class="po2">Or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>What then shall I do when God riseth up?</div><div class="po2">And when He remembereth, what shall I answer Him?</div> <div class="po1"><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?</div><div class="po2">And did not One fashion us in the womb?</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If I have withheld aught that the poor desired,</div><div class="po2">Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Or have eaten my morsel myself alone,</div><div class="po2">And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,</div><div class="po2">And I have been her guide from my mother’s womb.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If I have seen any wanderer in want of clothing,</div><div class="po2">Or that the needy had no covering;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If his loins have not blessed me,</div><div class="po2">And if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,</div><div class="po2">Because I saw my help in the gate;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade,</div><div class="po2">And mine arm be broken from the bone.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For calamity from God was a terror to me,</div><div class="po2">And by reason of His majesty I could do nothing.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>If I have made gold my hope,</div><div class="po2">And have said to the fine gold: ‘Thou art my confidence’;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>If I rejoiced because my wealth was great,</div><div class="po2">And because my hand had gotten much;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>If I beheld the sun when it shined,</div><div class="po2">Or the moon walking in brightness;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And my heart hath been secretly enticed,</div><div class="po2">And my mouth hath kissed my hand;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges;</div><div class="po2">For I should have lied to God that is above.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me,</div><div class="po2">Or exulted when evil found him—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin</div><div class="po2">By asking his life with a curse.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>If the men of my tent said not:</div><div class="po2">‘Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat?’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>The stranger did not lodge in the street;</div><div class="po2">My doors I opened to the roadside.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>If after the manner of men I covered my transgressions,</div><div class="po2">By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Because I feared the great multitude,</div><div class="po2">And the most contemptible among families terrified me,</div><div class="po2">So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Oh that I had one to hear me!—</div><div class="po2">Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me—</div><div class="po2">And that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder;</div><div class="po2">I would bind it unto me as a crown.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>I would declare unto him the number of my steps;</div><div class="po2">As a prince would I go near unto him.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>If my land cry out against me,</div><div class="po2">And the furrows thereof weep together;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money,</div><div class="po2">Or have caused the tillers thereof to be disappointed—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/31-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Let thistles grow instead of wheat,</div><div class="po2">And noisome weeds instead of barley.<p>The words of Job are ended.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/30.htm" 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