en_cepher - Job 31 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ I cut a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

² For what portion of Eloah is there from above? and what inheritance of El Shaddai from on high?

³ Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

⁴ Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

⁵ If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hasted to deceit;

⁶ Let me be weighed in an even balance, that Eloah may know my integrity.

⁷ If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot has cleaved to my hands;

⁸ Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

⁹ If my heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

¹⁰ Then let my woman grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

¹¹ For this is a heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

¹² For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

¹³ If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

¹⁴ What then shall I do when El rises up? and when he visits, what shall I answer him?

¹⁵ Did not he that 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 have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

¹⁷ Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;

¹⁸ (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

¹⁹ If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

²⁰ If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were 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 arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

²³ For destruction from El was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

²⁴ If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my confidence;

²⁵ If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

²⁶ If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

²⁷ And my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:

²⁸ This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the El that is above.

²⁹ If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

³⁰ Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

³¹ If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

³² The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.

³³ If I covered my transgressions as A'dam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:

³⁴ Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

³⁵ Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that El Shaddai would answer me, and that my adversary had written a cepher.

³⁶ Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

³⁷ I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

³⁸ If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

³⁹ If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

⁴⁰ Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Iyov are ended.