Job 31

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