Job 31 Updated Brenton English Septuagint

311 I made a covenant with mine eyes, And I will not think upon a virgin. 2 Now what portion has God given from above? And is there an inheritance [given] of the Mighty One from the highest? 3 Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, And rejection to them that do iniquity. 4 Will he not see my way, And number all my steps? 5 But if I had gone with scorners, And if too my foot has hastened to deceit 6 (For I am weighed in a just balance, And the Lord knows my innocence): 7 If my foot has turned aside out of the way, Or if my heart has followed mine eye, And if too I have touched gifts with my hands; 8 Then let me sow, and let others eat; And let me be uprooted on the earth. 9 If my heart has gone forth after another man’s wife, And if I laid wait at her doors; 10 Then let my wife also please another, And let my children be brought low. 11 For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, [In the case] of defiling [another] man’s wife. 12 For it is a fire burning on every side, And whomsoever it attacks, it utterly destroys. 13 And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or [my] handmaid, When they pleaded with me; 14 What then shall I do if the Lord should try me? And if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer? 15 Were not they too formed as I also was formed in the womb? Yea, we were formed in the same womb. 16 But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, And I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail. 17 And if too I ate my morsel alone, And did not impart [of it] to the orphan 18 (For I nourished [them] as a father from my youth, And guided [them] from my mother’s womb). 19 And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him; 20 And if the poor did not bless me, And their shoulders were [not] warmed with the fleece of my lambs; 21 If I lifted my hand against an orphan, Trusting that my strength was far superior [to his]: 22 Let then my shoulder start from the bladebone, And my arm be crushed off from the elbow. 23 For the fear of the Lord constrained me, And I cannot bear up by reason of his burden. 24 If I made gold my treasure, And if too I trusted the precious stone; 25 And if too I rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, And if too I laid my hand on innumerable [treasures] 26 (Do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, And the moon waning? for they have not [power to continue]): 27 And if my heart was secretly deceived, And if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it: 28 Let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: For I [should] have lied against the Lord Most High. 29 And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies, And my heart said, Aha! 30 Let then mine ear hear my curse, And let me be a byword among my people in my affliction. 31 And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh (Whereas I was very kind: 32 For the stranger did not lodge without, And my door was opened to everyone that came): 33 Or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin 34 (For I did not stand in awe of a great multitude, so as not to declare boldly before them): And if too I permitted a poor man to go out of my door with an empty bosom 35 (Oh that I had a hearer), And if I had not feared the hand of the Lord; And [as to] the written charge which I had against anyone, 36 I would place [it] as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it. 37 And if not, tearing it up I would return it, Having taken nothing from the debtor. 38 If at any time the land groaned against me, And if its furrows mourned together; 39 And if I ate its strength alone without price, And if too I grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking [aught] from [him]: 40 Then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, And a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.