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Job 31 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899

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1 I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.

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

2 For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance 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 destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?

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

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

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

5 If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit:

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

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.

7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved 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 Then let me sow and let another eat: and let my offspring be rooted out.

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

9 If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend’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 be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.

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

11 For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.

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

12 It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.

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

13 If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:

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

14 For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall 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 also: 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?

16 If I have denied to the poor what they desired, 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;

17 If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:

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

18 (For from my infancy mercy grew up 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;)

19 If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:

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

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;

21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:

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

22 Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.

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

23 For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear.

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

24 If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence:

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

25 If I have rejoiced over my great riches, 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 shined, and the moon going in brightness:

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

27 And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth:

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

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.

29 If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.

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

30 For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul.

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

31 If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?

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

32 The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.

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

33 If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.

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

34 If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and I have not rather held my peace, and not gone 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 Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth would 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.

36 That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?

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

37 At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.

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

38 If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn:

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

39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof:

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

40 Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.

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

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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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