Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
“I
have
made
a covenant with
my
eyes .
How
then
could
I gaze
with
desire
at
a virgin?
A covenant I
made
for
mine
eyes ,
And
what
--
do
I attend
to
a virgin?
For
what is the allotment
of God from above ,
or
the heritage
from the Almighty
on
high
?
And
what `
is '
the portion
of God from above ?
And
the inheritance
of
the
Mighty
from the heights
?
Does
not disaster
come
to the unjust
and calamity
to the
workers of iniquity?
Is
not calamity
to the perverse?
And strangeness
to workers of iniquity?
Does
He
not see my ways and count
my every
step
?
Doth
not He
see my ways ,
And all
my steps
number
?
If I have walked in
falsehood
or
my foot has
rushed
to deceit,
If I have walked with
vanity,
And
my foot doth
hasten
to deceit,
let
God
weigh me with
honest
scales
, that
He
may
know my integrity.
He
doth
weigh me in
righteous
balances
, And
God
doth
know my integrity.
If my steps
have
turned
from the path
, if
my heart has
followed
my
eyes
, or
if
impurity
has
stuck
to my hands,
If my step
doth
turn
aside
from the way
, And
after
mine
eyes
hath
my heart gone
, And
to my hands cleaved
hath
blemish
,
then
may
another eat what
I
have
sown
, and may
my crops
be uprooted
.
Let
me
sow
--
and
another eat, And my products
let
be rooted
out
.
If my heart has
been enticed by my
neighbor’s
wife
, or
I have
lurked
at
his
door
,
If my heart hath
been enticed by woman
, And
by
the
opening
of
my
neighbour
I laid
wait
,
then
may
my
own
wife
grind grain
for
another, and may
other
men
sleep
with
her.
Grind to
another let
my
wife
, And over
her let
others
bend
.
For that
would
be
a heinous
crime
, an
iniquity to
be
judged.
For it
`is'
a wicked
thing
, and
a
judicial
iniquity ;
For it
is
a fire that
burns
down
to Abaddon;
it would
root out
my
entire
harvest.
For a fire it
`is',
to destruction
it consumeth,
And
among
all
mine
increase
doth
take
root ,
If I have
rejected
the cause of my manservant
or
maidservant
when
they
made
a
complaint
against
me,
If I despise
the cause of my man-servant,
And
of
my
handmaid,
In
their
contending
with
me,
what will
I do when God rises
to
judge
? How
will
I answer when
called
to
account
?
Then
what do
I do when God ariseth
? And
when
He
doth
inspect,
What
do
I answer Him
?
Did not He who
made me in the womb also
make them
? Did
not
the
same
One
form
us in the womb ?
Did not He that
made me in the womb make him
? Yea,
prepare
us in the womb doth
One.
If I have
denied
the
desires
of
the poor or
allowed
the widow’s
eyes to
fail
,
If I withhold
from
pleasure
the poor ,
And
the eyes of
the
widow
do
consume
,
if
I have
eaten
my morsel alone
, not sharing
it with
the
fatherless—
And
I do
eat
my morsel by
myself
, And
the
orphan
hath
not eat
of
it ,
though
from my youth I
reared
him
as would
a father, and from my mother’s
womb
I guided
the
widow—
(But
from my youth He
grew
up
with
me
as `with'
a father, And from the
belly
of
my mother
I am
led.)
if I have
seen
one
perish
for
lack
of
clothing, or
a
needy man
without
a
cloak
,
If I see
`any'
perishing
without
clothing, And
there
is
no
covering
to
the
needy,
if his heart
has
not blessed me for
warming
him
with
the fleece of my sheep,
If his loins
have
not blessed me ,
And
from
the fleece of my sheep He
doth
not
warm
himself
,
if I have lifted
up
my
hand
against
the fatherless because
I
saw
that
I had
support
in the gate,
If I have waved
at
the fatherless my
hand,
When
I see
in `him'
the gate of
my
court
,
then
may
my arm
fall
from
my
shoulder and
be
torn
from its socket
.
My shoulder from its blade
let
fall,
And
mine
arm
from
the
bone
be
broken
.
For calamity from God terrifies
me
, and His splendor
I cannot
overpower
.
For a
dread
unto
me
`is'
calamity `
from '
God, And because
of
His excellency
I am
not
able
.
If I have put
my
trust
in
gold or
called
pure gold my security
,
If I have made
gold my
confidence,
And
to
the
pure gold have
said,
`
My trust
, '
if I have
rejoiced
in
my
great wealth because my hand had
gained
so
much
,
If I rejoice
because
great `is'
my
wealth ,
And
because abundance
hath
my hand found
,
if I have
beheld
the sun
in
its
radiance
or
the moon moving
in
splendor
,
If I see
the light
when
it
shineth,
And
the precious
moon walking
,
so
that
my heart was
secretly
enticed and my hand threw
a
kiss from
my mouth,
And
my heart is
enticed in
secret,
And my hand doth
kiss my mouth,
this
would
also be
an
iniquity to
be
judged
, for I would
have
denied
God on
high
.
It
also `is'
a
judicial
iniquity, For I had
lied
to
God above
.
If I have
rejoiced
in
my
enemy’s
ruin, or
exulted
when evil befell
him —
If I rejoice
at
the
ruin of
my
hater
, And
stirred
up
myself
when evil found
him ,
I have not allowed
my mouth to sin by
asking
for
his life with
a
curse—
Yea,
I have not suffered
my mouth to sin ,
To
ask
with
an
oath
his life .
if the
men of my house
have
not
said
, ‘Who
is
there
who
has
not
had his fill?’—
If not
--
say
ye,
O
men of my tent
, `O
that
we
had of
his flesh,
we
are
not
satisfied.'
but
no
stranger
had
to
lodge
on
the street, for
my door
has
been
open
to the traveler—
In
the street doth
not
lodge
a
stranger
, My doors
to the traveller
I
open.
if I have covered my
transgressions
like
Adam by
hiding
my guilt
in my heart
,
If I have covered as
Adam my transgressions,
To
hide
in my bosom
mine
iniquity
,
because I greatly
feared
the
crowds
and the contempt of the
clans
terrified
me, so
that
I kept
silent and
would
not
go outside—
Because I fear
a
great
multitude,
And the contempt of families
doth
affright
me, Then
I am
silent ,
I
go not
out
of
the
opening.
(Oh,
that
I
had
one
to hear
me !
Here
is
my signature
. Let
the Almighty
answer me ;
let
my
accuser
compose
an
indictment
.
Who
giveth
to me a
hearing?
lo,
my mark
. The Mighty
One
doth
answer me ,
And
a
bill
hath
mine
adversary
written
.
Surely
I
would
carry
it
on my shoulder and
wear
it like
a crown.
If
not
--
on my shoulder I
take
it up,
I
bind
it
a crown on
myself
.
I
would
give
account
of all
my steps ;
I would
approach
Him like
a prince
. )—
The
number
of my steps I tell
Him ,
As
a leader
I
approach
Him
.
if my land cries
out against
me
and its furrows weep together
,
If against
me
my land doth
cry
out ,
And together
its furrows weep,
if I
have
devoured
its produce
without payment
or
broken
the spirit
of its tenants
,
If its strength
I
consumed
without money,
And
the life
of its possessors
, I
have
caused
to
breathe
out,
then
let
briers
grow
instead of wheat and stinkweed
instead of barley .”
Thus
conclude
the words of Job.
Instead of wheat let
a
thorn
go
forth,
And instead of barley a
useless
weed!
The words of Job are
finished
.
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