{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/ylt/job/31","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T10:27:16.715Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":31,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":30,"nextChapter":32,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":40},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what — do I attend to a virgin?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And what is the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit,"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Let me sow — and another eat, And my products let be rooted out."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For it is a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity;"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For a fire it is, to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"(But from my youth He grew up with me as with a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"If I see any perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court,"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For a dread unto me is calamity from God, And because of His excellency I am not able."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, 'My trust,'"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"If I rejoice because great is my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found,"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking,"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth,"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"It also is a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"If not — say ye, O men of my tent, 'O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.'"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity,"},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written."},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"If not — on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself."},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him."},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep,"},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,"},{"verseNumber":40,"text":"Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 31 (YLT)","markdown":"[Job 31](https://primebible.com/ylt/job/31)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/job/31 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}