Job · Updated Brenton English Septuagint

Job 31 Updated Brenton English Septuagint

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Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.

LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint

RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909

1 I made a covenant with mine eyes, And I will not think upon a virgin.

1 HICE pacto con mis ojos: ¿cómo pues había yo de pensar en virgen?

2 Now what portion has God given from above? And is there an inheritance [given] of the Mighty One from the highest?

2 Porque ¿qué galardón [me daría] de arriba Dios, y qué heredad el Omnipotente de las alturas?

3 Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, And rejection to them that do iniquity.

3 ¿No hay quebrantamiento para el impío, y extrañamiento para los que obran iniquidad?

4 Will he not see my way, And number all my steps?

4 ¿No ve él mis caminos, y cuenta todos mis pasos?

5 But if I had gone with scorners, And if too my foot has hastened to deceit

5 Si anduve con mentira, y si mi pie se apresuró á engaño,

6 (For I am weighed in a just balance, And the Lord knows my innocence):

6 Péseme Dios en balanzas de justicia, y conocerá mi integridad.

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;

7 Si mis pasos se apartaron del camino, y si mi corazón se fué tras mis ojos, y si algo se apegó á mis manos,

8 Then let me sow, and let others eat; And let me be uprooted on the earth.

8 Siembre yo, y otro coma, y mis verduras sean arrancadas.

9 If my heart has gone forth after another man’s wife, And if I laid wait at her doors;

9 Si fué mi corazón engañado acerca de mujer, y si estuve acechando á la puerta de mi prójimo:

10 Then let my wife also please another, And let my children be brought low.

10 Muela para otro mi mujer, y sobre ella otros se encorven.

11 For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, [In the case] of defiling [another] man’s wife.

11 Porque es maldad é iniquidad, que han de castigar los jueces.

12 For it is a fire burning on every side, And whomsoever it attacks, it utterly destroys.

12 Porque es fuego que devoraría hasta el sepulcro, y desarraigaría toda mi hacienda.

13 And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or [my] handmaid, When they pleaded with me;

13 Si hubiera tenido en poco el derecho de mi siervo y de mi sierva, cuando ellos pleitearan conmigo,

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?

14 ¿Qué haría yo cuando Dios se levantase? y cuando él visitara, ¿qué le respondería yo?

15 Were not they too formed as I also was formed in the womb? Yea, we were formed in the same womb.

15 El que en el vientre me hizo á mí, ¿no lo hizo á él? ¿y no nos dispuso uno mismo en la matriz?

16 But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, And I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail.

16 Si estorbé el contento de los pobres, é hice desfallecer los ojos de la viuda;

17 And if too I ate my morsel alone, And did not impart [of it] to the orphan

17 Y si comí mi bocado solo, y no comió de él el huérfano;

18 (For I nourished [them] as a father from my youth, And guided [them] from my mother’s womb).

18 (Porque desde mi mocedad creció conmigo como con padre, y desde el vientre de mi madre fuí guía de la viuda;)

19 And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him;

19 Si he visto que pereciera alguno sin vestido, y al menesteroso sin cobertura;

20 And if the poor did not bless me, And their shoulders were [not] warmed with the fleece of my lambs;

20 Si no me bendijeron sus lomos, y del vellón de mis ovejas se calentaron;

21 If I lifted my hand against an orphan, Trusting that my strength was far superior [to his]:

21 Si alcé contra el huérfano mi mano, aunque viese que me ayudarían en la puerta;

22 Let then my shoulder start from the bladebone, And my arm be crushed off from the elbow.

22 Mi espalda se caiga de mi hombro, y mi brazo sea quebrado de mi canilla.

23 For the fear of the Lord constrained me, And I cannot bear up by reason of his burden.

23 Porque temí el castigo de Dios, contra cuya alteza yo no tendría poder.

24 If I made gold my treasure, And if too I trusted the precious stone;

24 Si puse en oro mi esperanza, y dije al oro: Mi confianza [eres] tú;

25 And if too I rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, And if too I laid my hand on innumerable [treasures]

25 Si me alegré de que mi hacienda se multiplicase, y de que mi mano hallase mucho;

26 (Do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, And the moon waning? for they have not [power to continue]):

26 Si he mirado al sol cuando resplandecía, y á la luna cuando iba hermosa,

27 And if my heart was secretly deceived, And if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it:

27 Y mi corazón se engañó en secreto, y mi boca besó mi mano:

28 Let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: For I [should] have lied against the Lord Most High.

28 Esto también fuera maldad juzgada; porque habría negado al Dios soberano.

29 And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies, And my heart said, Aha!

29 Si me alegré en el quebrantamiento del que me aborrecía, y me regocijé cuando le halló el mal;

30 Let then mine ear hear my curse, And let me be a byword among my people in my affliction.

30 (Que ni aun entregué al pecado mi paladar, pidiendo maldición para su alma;)

31 And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh (Whereas I was very kind:

31 Cuando mis domésticos decían: ¡Quién nos diese de su carne! nunca nos hartaríamos.

32 For the stranger did not lodge without, And my door was opened to everyone that came):

32 El extranjero no tenía fuera la noche; mis puertas abría al caminante.

33 Or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin

33 Si encubrí, como los hombres mis prevaricaciones, escondiendo en mi seno mi iniquidad;

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

34 Porque quebrantaba á la gran multitud, y el menosprecio de las familias me atemorizó, y callé, y no salí de mi puerta:

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,

35 ¡Quién me diera quien me oyese! He aquí mi impresión [es] que el Omnipotente testificaría por mí, aunque mi adversario me hiciera el proceso.

36 I would place [it] as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it.

36 Ciertamente yo lo llevaría sobre mi hombro, y me lo ataría en lugar de corona.

37 And if not, tearing it up I would return it, Having taken nothing from the debtor.

37 Yo le contaría el número de mis pasos, y como príncipe me llegaría á él.

38 If at any time the land groaned against me, And if its furrows mourned together;

38 Si mi tierra clama contra mí, y lloran todos sus surcos;

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]:

39 Si comí su sustancia sin dinero, ó afligí el alma de sus dueños;

40 Then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, And a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.

40 En lugar de trigo me nazcan abrojos, y espinas en lugar de cebada. Acábanse las palabras de Job.

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

Quotes verse 31:25 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XXI)
And what is more, when he had them they were no joy to him: so he also declared, saying, "If I did so much as rejoice when my wealth waxed great:" wherefore neither did he grieve when it was gone.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Quotes verse 31:1 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XXXIII)
And if thou wouldest also hear of his strivings after continence, hearken to him when he saith, "I made a covenant with mine eyes, that I should not think upon a maid." For this cause his wife did not break his spirit, for he loved her even before this, not however immoderately, but as is due to a wife.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

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