ABP - Job - 31

31:1  [2a covenant 1I made] with my eyes, and I will not take notice upon a virgin.

31:2  And what portion is from God above, and [2inheritance 1what fit] is from the highest?

31:3  Woe, destruction to the unjust, and alienation to the one committing lawlessness.

31:4  Will he not see my way, and [2all 3my footsteps 1count out]?

31:5  But if I was going with jokesters, or even hurrying my foot for treachery;

31:6  (for I stand in [2yoke balance scale 1a just], [4knew 1and 2the 3 lord] my innocence);

31:7  if [2turned aside 1my foot] from out of the way, or if even [3my eye 2follows after 1my heart], and if even my hands touched bribes;

31:8  [2may I sow 1then], and others eat; [3rootless 1and 2may I become] upon the earth.

31:9  If [2followed after 1my heart] the wife [2man 1of another], and if [2laid in wait 1I had] at her doors;

31:10  [2may 5please 1then 4even 3my wife] another; and [2my infants 1may 3be humbled].

31:11  For the rage of anger is unrestrained in the defiling of a man's wife.

31:12  [3a fire 1For 2it is] burning upon all the parts; and whomever it may come upon [2from 3the roots 1it destroyed].

31:13  And if even I treated as worthless the equity due my male attendant or female attendant, in their pleading with me,

31:14  what then shall I do if [4chastisement 5for me 3shall appoint 1the 2 lord]? and if also he should visit, what answer shall I make?

31:15  Were they not even as I, born in a womb? and these were born, and we were born in the same belly.

31:16  But the disabled [2whatever need 4at some time or other 3they had 1missed not]; [5of the widow 1and 3the 4eye 2I wasted not].

31:17  And even if [2my morsel 1I ate] alone, and [4not 5with an orphan 1I shared 2of 3it],

31:18  (for from my youth I nourished them as a father, and from the womb of my mother I guided);

31:19  and even if I overlooked the naked perishing, and clothed him not;

31:20  and the disabled, unless they blessed me, and of the shearing wool of my lambs [2were not heated 1their shoulders];

31:21  and if I lifted up [2against an orphan 1a hand], (relying that much [3to me 1help 2remained]);

31:22  [2may 4separate 1then 3my shoulder] from the collar-bone, and [2my arm 4from 5the 6elbow 1may 3be broken].

31:23  For the fear of the lord constrained me; from his concern I shall not endure.

31:24  If I ordered up gold for my strength; and if even [3stone 2very costly 1I relied upon];

31:25  and even if [2gladness 1great] in riches was coming to me; and if also [3upon 4innumerable things 1I put 2my hand];

31:26  (or do we not see [3sun 1the 2shining] subsiding, and the moon waning? [3no power 1For 4to 5them 2there is]).

31:27  And if [2was deceived 3in private 1my heart]; and if [3hand 2placing my 4upon 5my mouth 1I was fond of];

31:28  then let this be [2so to me 5lawlessness 3as the 4greatest 1imputed]; for I lied before the lord of the highest.

31:29  And even if [2gratified 1I became] at the calamitous downfall of my enemies; and said in my heart, Well done!

31:30  Let [3hear 1then 2my ear] my curse, and may I then be a common topic by my people for my inflicting evil.

31:31  And if even often [2said 1my female attendants], Who ever might give to us his flesh to satisfy? exceedingly of my being gracious.

31:32  [4outside 1for 3lodged not 2the stranger], and my door [2to all 3that came 1was open].

31:33  And if even of sins, unintentionally I hid my sin,

31:34  (for I was not diverted [2multitude 1by a great] to not openly declare before them); and if even I allowed a disabled man to go forth from my door [2bosom 1with an empty],

31:35  (oh that there might be given one to hear me), [4of the hand 1but 5of the lord 2unless 3I was in awe]; and as to a writ which I had against anyone,

31:36  [3upon 4even my shoulders 1putting it on 2a crown] I read it.

31:37  And unless tearing it I gave it back [2nothing 1having received] from a debtor.

31:38  If [5against 6me 1perhaps 2the 3earth 4moaned], and even if her furrows wept with one accord;

31:39  and even if of its strength I ate alone without value; and if even [2of the life 3of the master 4of the 5land 1in taking anything] I fretted him;

31:40  instead of wheat then may there come forth to me nettles; and instead of barley a bush. And Job ceased words.