Job 31

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1 I made a covenant with my eyes, so as not to think about my girl.
2 What is the fate of [me] from God above? And what heritage from the Almighty from heaven?
3 Not for the death of the wicked, whether, and for whether to attack the evil doing?
4 If he saw my ways, and count all my steps?
5 If I have walked in vanity, or if my foot has hastened to deceit -
6 let him weigh me on the scales of truth and God know my integrity.
7 If my foot out of the way and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any [impure] stuck to my hands,
8 then let me sow, and another eat, and let my industry will be eliminated.

9 If my heart has been enticed by a woman, I have laid wait at my neighbor's door -
10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her,
eleven because it is - a crime, it - lawlessness, subject to the court;
12 it - the fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine.
13 If I did despise the servants and my maidservant, when they contended with me;
14 What then shall I do when God rises up? And when he looked at me that I might answer him?
15 Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or the widow's eyes to fail;
17 One I ate a piece of mine, and not eaten of it, and an orphan?
18 For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother's womb I led the [widow].
19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without cover -
20 if his loins blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate;
22 then let my shoulder fall from the back, and my arm be broken from the elbow,
23 For scary for me the punishment of God, the greatness of His would not hold me.

24 If I have made gold my support and whether the treasure said, you - my hope?
25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
26 Looking at the sun when it shines or the moon as she walks majestically,
27 I enticed a secret of my heart, or my mouth has kissed my hand;
28 It would also be a crime to be tried, because I should have denied the [then] God above.
29 If I rejoiced the death of my enemy, and exulted when evil befell him?
thirty Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin a curse to his soul.
31 Are not people of my tent said, Oh that we had of his flesh can not be satisfied?
32 The stranger did not lodge in the street; I opened my doors passer.

33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my chest,
34 I fear a great multitude, and the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silent and would not be out of the door.
35 Oh that one would hear me! Here is my wish that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
36 I would wear it on my shoulder, and bind it as a crown;
37 I would declare to him the number of my steps would be friends with him as a prince.
38 If you cried out to my land and I complained that the furrows;
39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and wearied life of farmers,
40 let them grow instead of wheat thistle instead of barley. Words of Job are ended.

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