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Job 31

The Message Bible MSG

1 "I made a solemn pact with myself never to undress a girl with my eyes.

2 So what can I expect from God? What do I deserve from God Almighty above?

3 Isn't calamity reserved for the wicked? Isn't disaster supposed to strike those who do wrong?

4 Isn't God looking, observing how I live? Doesn't he mark every step I take?

5 "Have I walked hand in hand with falsehood, or hung out in the company of deceit?

6 Weigh me on a set of honest scales so God has proof of my integrity.

7 If I've strayed off the straight and narrow, wanted things I had no right to, messed around with sin,

8 Go ahead, then - give my portion to someone who deserves it.

9 "If I've let myself be seduced by a woman and conspired to go to bed with her,

10 Fine, my wife has every right to go ahead and sleep with anyone she wants to.

11 For disgusting behavior like that, I'd deserve the worst punishment you could hand out.

12 Adultery is a fire that burns the house down; I wouldn't expect anything I count dear to survive it.

13 "Have I ever been unfair to my employees when they brought a complaint to me?

14 What, then, will I do when God confronts me? When God examines my books, what can I say?

15 Didn't the same God who made me, make them? Aren't we all made of the same stuff, equals before God?

16 "Have I ignored the needs of the poor, turned my back on the indigent,

17 Taken care of my own needs and fed my own face while they languished?

18 Wasn't my home always open to them? Weren't they always welcome at my table?

19 "Have I ever left a poor family shivering in the cold when they had no warm clothes?

20 Didn't the poor bless me when they saw me coming, knowing I'd brought coats from my closet?

21 "If I've ever used my strength and influence to take advantage of the unfortunate,

22 Go ahead, break both my arms, cut off all my fingers!

23 The fear of God has kept me from these things - how else could I ever face him? If Only Someone Would Give Me a Hearing!

24 "Did I set my heart on making big money or worship at the bank?

25 Did I boast about my wealth, show off because I was well-off?

26 Was I ever so awed by the sun's brilliance and moved by the moon's beauty

27 That I let myself become seduced by them and worshiped them on the sly?

28 If so, I would deserve the worst of punishments, for I would be betraying God himself.

29 "Did I ever crow over my enemy's ruin? Or gloat over my rival's bad luck?

30 No, I never said a word of detraction, never cursed them, even under my breath.

31 "Didn't those who worked for me say, 'He fed us well. There were always second helpings'?

32 And no stranger ever had to spend a night in the street; my doors were always open to travelers.

33 Did I hide my sin the way Adam did, or conceal my guilt behind closed doors

34 Because I was afraid what people would say, fearing the gossip of the neighbors so much That I turned myself into a recluse? You know good and well that I didn't.

35 "Oh, if only someone would give me a hearing! I've signed my name to my defense - let the Almighty One answer! I want to see my indictment in writing.

36 Anyone's welcome to read my defense; I'll write it on a poster and carry it around town.

37 I'm prepared to account for every move I've ever made - to anyone and everyone, prince or pauper.

38 "If the very ground that I farm accuses me, if even the furrows fill with tears from my abuse,

39 If I've ever raped the earth for my own profit or dispossessed its rightful owners,

40 Then curse it with thistles instead of wheat, curse it with weeds instead of barley." The words of Job to his three friends were finished. Elihu Speaks

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 pepigi foedus cum oculis meis ut ne cogitarem quidem de virgine

2 quam enim partem haberet Deus in me desuper et hereditatem Omnipotens de excelsis

3 numquid non perditio est iniquo et alienatio operantibus iniustitiam

4 nonne ipse considerat vias meas et cunctos gressus meos dinumerat

5 si ambulavi in vanitate et festinavit in dolo pes meus

6 adpendat me in statera iusta et sciat Deus simplicitatem meam

7 si declinavit gressus meus de via et si secutum est oculos meos cor meum et in manibus meis adhesit macula

8 seram et alius comedat et progenies mea eradicetur

9 si deceptum est cor meum super mulierem et si ad ostium amici mei insidiatus sum

10 scortum sit alteri uxor mea et super illam incurventur alii

11 hoc enim nefas est et iniquitas maxima

12 ignis est usque ad perditionem devorans et omnia eradicans genimina

13 si contempsi subire iudicium cum servo meo et ancillae meae cum disceptarent adversum me

14 quid enim faciam cum surrexerit ad iudicandum Deus et cum quaesierit quid respondebo illi

15 numquid non in utero fecit me qui et illum operatus est et formavit in vulva unus

16 si negavi quod volebant pauperibus et oculos viduae expectare feci

17 si comedi buccellam meam solus et non comedit pupillus ex ea

18 quia ab infantia mea crevit mecum miseratio et de utero matris meae egressa est mecum

19 si despexi pereuntem eo quod non habuerit indumentum et absque operimento pauperem

20 si non benedixerunt mihi latera eius et de velleribus ovium mearum calefactus est

21 si levavi super pupillum manum meam etiam cum viderem me in porta superiorem

22 umerus meus a iunctura sua cadat et brachium meum cum suis ossibus confringatur

23 semper enim quasi tumentes super me fluctus timui Deum et pondus eius ferre non potui

24 si putavi aurum robur meum et obrizae dixi fiducia mea

25 si laetatus sum super multis divitiis meis et quia plurima repperit manus mea

26 si vidi solem cum fulgeret et lunam incedentem clare

27 et lactatum est in abscondito cor meum et osculatus sum manum meam ore meo

28 quae est iniquitas maxima et negatio contra Deum altissimum

29 si gavisus sum ad ruinam eius qui me oderat et exultavi quod invenisset eum malum

30 non enim dedi ad peccandum guttur meum ut expeterem maledicens animam eius

31 si non dixerunt viri tabernaculi mei quis det de carnibus eius ut saturemur

32 foris non mansit peregrinus ostium meum viatori patuit

33 si abscondi quasi homo peccatum meum et celavi in sinu meo iniquitatem meam

34 si expavi ad multitudinem nimiam et despectio propinquorum terruit me et non magis tacui nec egressus sum ostium

35 quis mihi tribuat auditorem ut desiderium meum Omnipotens audiat et librum scribat ipse qui iudicat

36 ut in umero meo portem illum et circumdem illum quasi coronam mihi

37 per singulos gradus meos pronuntiabo illum et quasi principi offeram eum

38 si adversum me terra mea clamat et cum ipsa sulci eius deflent

39 si fructus eius comedi absque pecunia et animam agricolarum eius adflixi

40 pro frumento oriatur mihi tribulus et pro hordeo spina finita sunt verba Iob