# Job 31 ## Job 31:1 - [KJV] I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? - [ASV] I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin? - [YLT] A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what -- do I attend to a virgin? ### Notes on Job 31:1 - ## Job 31:2 - [KJV] For what portion of God *is there* from above? and *what* inheritance of the Almighty from on high? - [ASV] For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high? - [YLT] And what *is* the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights? ### Notes on Job 31:2 - ## Job 31:3 - [KJV] *Is* not destruction to the wicked? and a strange *punishment* to the workers of iniquity? - [ASV] Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity? - [YLT] Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity? ### Notes on Job 31:3 - ## Job 31:4 - [KJV] Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? - [ASV] Doth not he see my ways, And number all my steps? - [YLT] Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number? ### Notes on Job 31:4 - ## Job 31:5 - [KJV] If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; - [ASV] If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to deceit - [YLT] If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit, ### Notes on Job 31:5 - ## Job 31:6 - [KJV] Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. - [ASV] (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity); - [YLT] He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity. ### Notes on Job 31:6 - ## Job 31:7 - [KJV] If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands; - [ASV] If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands: - [YLT] If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish, ### Notes on Job 31:7 - ## Job 31:8 - [KJV] *Then* let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out. - [ASV] Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out. - [YLT] Let me sow -- and another eat, And my products let be rooted out. ### Notes on Job 31:8 - ## Job 31:9 - [KJV] If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or *if* I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; - [ASV] If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door; - [YLT] If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait, ### Notes on Job 31:9 - ## Job 31:10 - [KJV] *Then* let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. - [ASV] Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her. - [YLT] Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend. ### Notes on Job 31:10 - ## Job 31:11 - [KJV] For this *is* an heinous crime; yea, it *is* an iniquity *to be punished by* the judges. - [ASV] For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges: - [YLT] For it *is* a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity; ### Notes on Job 31:11 - ## Job 31:12 - [KJV] For it *is* a fire *that* consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. - [ASV] For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase. - [YLT] For a fire it *is*, to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root, ### Notes on Job 31:12 - ## Job 31:13 - [KJV] If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; - [ASV] If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me; - [YLT] If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me, ### Notes on Job 31:13 - ## Job 31:14 - [KJV] What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? - [ASV] What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? - [YLT] Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him? ### Notes on Job 31:14 - ## Job 31:15 - [KJV] Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? - [ASV] Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? - [YLT] Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One. ### Notes on Job 31:15 - ## Job 31:16 - [KJV] If I have withheld the poor from *their* desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; - [ASV] If I have withheld the poor from *their* desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, - [YLT] If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume, ### Notes on Job 31:16 - ## Job 31:17 - [KJV] Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; - [ASV] Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof - [YLT] And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it, ### Notes on Job 31:17 - ## Job 31:18 - [KJV] (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as *with* a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) - [ASV] (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother's womb); - [YLT] (But from my youth He grew up with me as *with* a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.) ### Notes on Job 31:18 - ## Job 31:19 - [KJV] If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; - [ASV] If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering; - [YLT] If I see *any* perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy, ### Notes on Job 31:19 - ## Job 31:20 - [KJV] If his loins have not blessed me, and *if* he were *not* warmed with the fleece of my sheep; - [ASV] If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep; - [YLT] If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself, ### Notes on Job 31:20 - ## Job 31:21 - [KJV] If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: - [ASV] If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate: - [YLT] If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in *him* the gate of my court, ### Notes on Job 31:21 - ## Job 31:22 - [KJV] *Then* let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. - [ASV] Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone. - [YLT] My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken. ### Notes on Job 31:22 - ## Job 31:23 - [KJV] For destruction *from* God *was* a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. - [ASV] For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing. - [YLT] For a dread unto me *is* calamity *from* God, And because of His excellency I am not able. ### Notes on Job 31:23 - ## Job 31:24 - [KJV] If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, *Thou art* my confidence; - [ASV] If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, *Thou art* my confidence; - [YLT] If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, 'My trust,' ### Notes on Job 31:24 - ## Job 31:25 - [KJV] If I rejoiced because my wealth *was* great, and because mine hand had gotten much; - [ASV] If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much; - [YLT] If I rejoice because great *is* my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found, ### Notes on Job 31:25 - ## Job 31:26 - [KJV] If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking *in* brightness; - [ASV] If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness, - [YLT] If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking, ### Notes on Job 31:26 - ## Job 31:27 - [KJV] And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: - [ASV] And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand: - [YLT] And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth, ### Notes on Job 31:27 - ## Job 31:28 - [KJV] This also *were* an iniquity *to be punished by* the judge: for I should have denied the God *that is* above. - [ASV] This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above. - [YLT] It also *is* a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above. ### Notes on Job 31:28 - ## Job 31:29 - [KJV] If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: - [ASV] If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him; - [YLT] If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him, ### Notes on Job 31:29 - ## Job 31:30 - [KJV] Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. - [ASV] (Yea, I have not suffered by mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse); - [YLT] Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life. ### Notes on Job 31:30 - ## Job 31:31 - [KJV] If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. - [ASV] If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat? - [YLT] If not -- say ye, O men of my tent, 'O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.' ### Notes on Job 31:31 - ## Job 31:32 - [KJV] The stranger did not lodge in the street: *but* I opened my doors to the traveller. - [ASV] (The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller); - [YLT] In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open. ### Notes on Job 31:32 - ## Job 31:33 - [KJV] If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: - [ASV] If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom, - [YLT] If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity, ### Notes on Job 31:33 - ## Job 31:34 - [KJV] 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? - [ASV] Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door -- - [YLT] 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. ### Notes on Job 31:34 - ## Job 31:35 - [KJV] Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire *is, that* the Almighty would answer me, and *that* mine adversary had written a book. - [ASV] Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And *that I had* the indictment which mine adversary hath written! - [YLT] Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written. ### Notes on Job 31:35 - ## Job 31:36 - [KJV] Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, *and* bind it *as* a crown to me. - [ASV] Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown: - [YLT] If not -- on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself. ### Notes on Job 31:36 - ## Job 31:37 - [KJV] I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him. - [ASV] I would declare unto him the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near unto him. - [YLT] The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him. ### Notes on Job 31:37 - ## Job 31:38 - [KJV] If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; - [ASV] If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together; - [YLT] If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep, ### Notes on Job 31:38 - ## Job 31:39 - [KJV] If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: - [ASV] If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: - [YLT] If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out, ### Notes on Job 31:39 - ## Job 31:40 - [KJV] Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. - [ASV] Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. - [YLT] Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished. ### Notes on Job 31:40 -