Job 31 Darby Translation

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1890
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1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?

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

2 For what would have been [my] portion of God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?

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

3 Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?

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

4 Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?

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

5 If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit,

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

6 (Let me be weighed in an even balance, and God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)

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

7 If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth 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,

8 Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.

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

9 If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,

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

10 Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

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

11 For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity [to be judged by] the judges:

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

12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

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

13 If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,

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

14 What then should I do when God riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him?

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

15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not One fashion us 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?

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

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

17 Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,

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

18 (For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the [widow] 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 If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;

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

20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he 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 have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:

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

22 [Then] let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone!

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

23 For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.

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

24 If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence!

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

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

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

26 If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,

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

27 And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand:

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

28 This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the God who is above.

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

29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him;

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

30 (Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)

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

31 If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? —

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

32 The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.

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

33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

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

34 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, ...

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 one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!

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 Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me [as] a crown;

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

37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him.

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

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

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

39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:

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

40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

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.
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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.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

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