Job 31 Catholic Public Domain Version

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Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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1 I reached an agreement with my eyes, that I would not so much as think about a virgin.

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

1 “I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

2 For what portion should God from above hold for me, and what inheritance should the Almighty from on high keep?

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

2 For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

3 Is not destruction held for the wicked and repudiation kept for those who work injustice?

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

3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

4 Does he not examine my ways and number all my steps?

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

4 Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

5 If I have walked in vanity, or if my foot has hurried towards deceitfulness,

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

5 “If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

6 let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.

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

6 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

7 If my steps have turned aside from the way, or if my heart has followed my eyes, or if a blemish has clung to 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,

7 if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

8 then may I sow, and let another consume, and let my offspring be eradicated.

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

8 then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

9 If my heart has been deceived over a woman, or if I have waited in ambush at my friend’s door,

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

9 “If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,

10 then let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lean over her.

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

10 then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

11 For this is a crime and a very great injustice.

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

11 For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges,

12 It is a fire devouring all the way to perdition, and it roots out all that springs forth.

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

12 for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

13 If I have despised being subject to judgment with my servant or my maid, when they had any complaint against me,

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

13 “If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,

14 then what will I do when God rises to judge, and, when he inquires, how will I respond to him?

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

14 what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

15 Is not he who created me in the womb, also he who labored to make him? And did not one and the same form me in the 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?

15 Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

16 If I have denied the poor what they wanted and have made the eyes of the widow wait;

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

16 “If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

17 if I have eaten my morsel of food alone, while orphans have not eaten from it;

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

17 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

18 (for from my infancy mercy grew with me, and it came out with me 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;)

18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);

19 if I have looked down on him who was perishing because he had no clothing and the poor without any covering,

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

19 if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

20 if his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

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

20 if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;

21 if I have lifted up my hand over an orphan, even when it might seem to me that I have the advantage over him at the gate;

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

21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;

22 then may my shoulder fall from its joint, and may my arm, with all its bones, be broken.

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

22 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

23 For I have always feared God, like waves flowing over me, whose weight I was unable to bear.

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

23 For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.

24 If I have considered gold to be my strength, or if I have called purified gold ‘my Trust;’

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

24 “If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

25 if I have rejoiced over my great success, and over the many things my hand has obtained;

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

25 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

26 if I gazed upon the sun when it shined and the moon advancing brightly,

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

26 if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

27 so that my heart rejoiced in secret and I kissed my hand with my mouth,

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

27 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth;

28 which is a very great iniquity and a denial against the most high God;

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

28 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have denied the God who is above.

29 if I have been glad at the ruin of him who hated me and have exulted that evil found him,

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

29 “If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

30 for I have not been given my throat to sin by asking for a curse on his soul;

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

30 (I have certainly not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

31 if the men around my tabernacle have not said: “He might give us some of his food, so that we will be filled,”

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

31 if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’

32 for the foreigner did not remain at the door, my door was open to the traveler;

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

32 (the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

33 if, as man does, I have hidden my sin and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom;

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

33 if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

34 if I became frightened by an excessive crowd, and the disrespect of close relatives alarmed me, so that I would much rather have remained silent or have gone out the door;

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

34 because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—

35 then, would he grant me a hearing, so that the Almighty would listen to my desire, and he who judges would himself write a book,

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.

35 oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!

36 which I would then carry on my shoulder and wrap around me like a crown?

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

36 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and I would bind it to me as a crown.

37 With each of my steps, I would pronounce and offer it, as if to a prince.

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

37 I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him like a prince.

38 So, if my land cries out against me, and if its furrows weep with it,

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

38 If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;

39 if I have used its fruits for nothing but money and have afflicted the souls of its tillers,

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

39 if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

40 then, may thistles spring forth for me instead of grain, and thorns instead of barley. (This ended the words of Job.)

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

40 let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

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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.
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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.
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