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31:1  I made a brit (covenant) with mine eyes; how then look I upon a betulah?
31:2  For what chelek of Eloah is there from above? And what nachalah of Shaddai from on high?
31:3  Is not destruction to the wicked? And a disaster to the poalei aven (workers of wrong)?
31:4  Doth not He see my derech, and count all my steps?
31:5  If I have walked with shav (vanity, falsehood), or if my regel hath hasted to mirmah (deceit),
31:6  Let me be weighed in scales of tzedek that Eloah may know mine tom (integrity).
31:7  If my step hath turned out of the derech, and mine lev walked after mine eyes, and if any mum hath cleaved to mine hands,
31:8  Then let me sow, and let acher (another) eat; yea, let my harvest be uprooted.
31:9  If mine lev have been deceived by an isha, or if I have lurked at petach (doorway) of my re’a;
31:10  Then let my isha grind for another, and let another kneel over her.
31:11  For this is a heinous crime; yea, it is an avon to be brought before judges.
31:12  For it is an eish that consumeth to Abaddon, and would root out all mine increase.
31:13  If I did despise the mishpat (cause) of my eved or of my amah, when they contended with me,
31:14  What then shall I do when El riseth up? And when He visiteth, what shall I answer Him?
31:15  Did not He that made me in the beten make them? And did not Echad fashion us in the rechem?
31:16  If I have withheld the poor from their chefetz (desire), or have caused the eyes of the almanah to grow weary,
31:17  Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the yatom hath not eaten thereof;
31:18  (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with an av, and I have guided her from beten immi;)
31:19  If I have seen any oved (one perishing) for want of clothing, or any evyon (needy) without covering,
31:20  If his heart did not bless me for warming him with the giz (fleece) of my sheep,
31:21  If I have lifted up my yad against the yatom, when I saw my influence in the sha’ar (gate, court);
31:22  Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder, and mine zero’a be broken from its socket.
31:23  For destruction from El was a pachad to me, and by reason of His majesty I could not endure.
31:24  If I have made zahav my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my security,
31:25  If I rejoice because my wealth was rav (great), and because mine yad had gotten much,
31:26  If I beheld the ohr when it shined, or the yarei’ach moving in splendor,
31:27  And my lev hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my yad [in heathen worship];
31:28  This also were an avon to be punished by the judge; for then I would have been unfaithful, denying El that is on high.
31:29  If I rejoice at the misfortune of him that hated me, or gloated when rah found him,
31:30  Neither have I allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse to his nefesh.
31:31  Have the men of my ohel not said, Where can we find one who has not been sated with his basar (meat)?
31:32  The stranger did not spend the night in the street, but I opened my delet to the ger.
31:33  If I concealed my peysha like Adam, by hiding mine avon in my heart,
31:34  Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of mishpekhot terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of doors?
31:35  Oh that one would hear me! See, my tav [signature], that Shaddai would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a sefer [of indictment];
31:36  Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder, and bind it to me like atarot (crowns).
31:37  I would declare unto Him the number of my steps; like a nagid (prince) would I go near unto Him.
31:38  If my adamah cry against me, or if the furrows had wept together,
31:39  If I have eaten the yield thereof without kesef (payment), or have broken the nefesh of the tenants thereof,
31:40  Let thistles grow instead of chittim (wheat), and weed instead of barley. The divrei Iyov are ended.