Job 31

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.	1 If I have made an agreement with my eyes and entertained any thoughts against a maiden;
2 For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?	2 But what is man's lot from God above, his inheritance from the Almighty on high?
3 Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?	3 Is it not calamity for the unrighteous, and woe for evildoers?
4 Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?	4 Does he not see my ways, and number all my steps?
5 If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit:	5 If I have walked in falsehood and my foot has hastened to deceit;
6 Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.	6 Let God weigh me in the scales of justice; thus will he know my innocence!
7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:	7 If my steps have turned out of the way, and my heart has followed my eyes, or any stain clings to my hands,
8 Then let me sow and let another eat: and let my offspring be rooted out.	8 Then may I sow, but another eat of it, or may my planting be rooted up!
9 If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door:	9 If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;
10 Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.	10 Then may my wife grind for another, and may others cohabit with her!
11 For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.	11 For that would be heinous, a crime to be condemned;
12 It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.	12 A fire that should burn down to the abyss till it consumed all my possessions to the roots.
13 If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:	13 Had I refused justice to my manservant or to my maid, when they had a claim against me,
14 For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?	14 What then should I do when God rose up; what could I answer when he demanded an account?
15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?	15 Did not he who made me in the womb make him? Did not the same One fashion us before our birth?
16 If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:	16 If I have denied anything to the poor, or allowed the eyes of the widow to languish
17 If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:	17 While I ate my portion alone, with no share in it for the fatherless,
18 (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb :)	18 Though like a father God has reared me from my youth, guiding me even from my mother's womb--
19 If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:	19 If I have seen a wanderer without clothing, or a poor man without covering,
20 If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:	20 Whose limbs have not blessed me when warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:	21 If I have raised my hand against the innocent because I saw that I had supporters at the gate--
22 Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.	22 Then may my arm fall from the shoulder, my forearm be broken at the elbow!
23 For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear.	23 For the dread of God will be upon me, and his majesty will overpower me.
24 If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence:	24 Had I put my trust in gold or called fine gold my security;
25 If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.	25 Or had I rejoiced that my wealth was great, or that my hand had acquired abundance--
26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, and the moon going in brightness:	26 Had I looked upon the sun as it shone, or the moon in the splendor of its progress,
27 And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth:	27 And had my heart been secretly enticed to waft them a kiss with my hand;
28 Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God.	28 This too would be a crime for condemnation, for I should have denied God above.
29 If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.	29 Had I rejoiced at the destruction of my enemy or exulted when evil fell upon him,
30 For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul.	30 Even though I had not suffered my mouth to sin by uttering a curse against his life--
31 If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?	31 Had not the men of my tent exclaimed, "Who has not been fed with his meat!"
32 The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.	32 Because no stranger lodged in the street, but I opened my door to wayfarers--
33 If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.	33 Had I, out of human weakness, hidden my sins and buried my guilt in my bosom
34 If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and I have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door.	34 Because I feared the noisy multitude and the scorn of the tribes terrified me- then I should have remained silent, and not come out of doors!
35 Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,	35 Oh, that I had one to hear my case, and that my accuser would write out his indictment!
36 That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?	36 Surely, I should wear it on my shoulder or put it on me like a diadem;
37 At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.	37 Of all my steps I should give him an account; like a prince I should present myself before him. This is my final plea; let the Almighty answer me! The words of Job are ended.
38 If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn:	38 If my land has cried out against me till its very furrows complained;
39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof:	39 If I have eaten its produce without payment and grieved the hearts of its tenants;
40 Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.	40 Then let the thistles grow instead of wheat and noxious weeds instead of barley!