en_wbms - Job 31 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ I made [a] covenant with mine eyes, that I should not think on a virgin.

² For what part should God above have in me, and what heritage should Almighty God of high things have in me?

³ Whether perdition is not to a wicked man, and alienation of God is to men working wickedness?

⁴ Whether he beholdeth not my ways, and numbereth all my goings?

⁵ If I have gone in vanity, and my foot hath hasted to go in guile [or treachery],

⁶ God weigh me in a just balance, and know he my simpleness.

⁷ If my steps have bowed from the way; and if mine eyes have pursued [or followed] mine heart, consenting to lust, and if a spot have cleaved to mine hands;

⁸ sow I, and another eat, and my generation be drawn out by the root.

⁹ And if mine heart was deceived on a woman, and if I have set ambush at the door of my friend;

¹⁰ my wife be then the whore of another man, and other men be bowed down upon her.

¹¹ For this is unleaveful, and the most wickedness.

¹² Fire is devouring till to wasting, and drawing up by the root all generations.

¹³ If I despised to take doom with my servant and with mine handmaid, when they strived against me.

¹⁴ What soothly shall I do, when God shall rise up to deem? and when he shall ask, what shall I answer to him?

¹⁵ Whether he, that wrought also him, made not me in the womb, and one God formed me in the womb?

¹⁶ If I denied to poor men that, that they would, and if I made the eyes of a widow to abide;

¹⁷ if I alone ate my morsel, and a fatherless child ate not thereof;

¹⁸ for merciful doing increased with me, from my young childhood, and it went out of my mother’s womb with me;

¹⁹ if I despised a man passing forth by me, for he had not a cloth, and a poor man without covering;

²⁰ if his sides blessed not me, and were not made hot of the fleece of my sheep;

²¹ if I raised up mine hand upon a fatherless child, yea, when I saw me the higher in the gate;

²² my shoulder fall from his joint, and mine arm with his bones be all-broken.

²³ For ever[more] I dreaded God, as waves waxing great upon me; and I might not bear his burden.

²⁴ If I guessed gold my strength, and I said to pured gold, Thou art my trust;

²⁵ if I was glad on my many riches, and for mine hand found full many things;

²⁶ if I saw the sun, when it shined, and the moon going clearly;

²⁷ and if mine heart was glad in private, and if I kissed mine hand with my mouth;

²⁸ the which is the most wickedness, and denying against the highest God;

²⁹ if I had joy at the falling of him, that hated me, and if I joyed fully [or full out joyed], that evil had found him;

³⁰ for I gave not my throat to do sin, that I should assail and curse his soul;

³¹ if the men of my tabernacle said not, Who giveth, that we be [ful] filled of his fleshes?

³² a pilgrim dwelled not withoutforth; my door was open to a way-goer or a way-faring man;

³³ if I as [a] man hid my sin, and covered my wickedness in my bosom;

³⁴ if I dreaded at [the] full great multitude, and if despising of neigh-bours made me afeared; and not more, I was still, and went not out of the door;

³⁵ who giveth then an helper to me, that Almighty God hear my desire? that he that deemeth, write a book,

³⁶ that I bear it on my shoulder, and encompass it as a crown to me?

³⁷ By all my degrees I shall pronounce it, and I shall as offering offer it to the prince.

³⁸ If my land crieth against me, and his furrows weep with it;

³⁹ if I ate fruits thereof without money, and I tormented the soul of earth-tillers of it;

⁴⁰ a briar grow to me for wheat, and a thorn for barley.