ECB(i)
1 I cut a covenant with my eyes; and what - discern I a virgin?
2 What is the allotment of Elohah from above? What is the inheritance of Shadday from the heights?
3 Is not calamity to the wicked? - a strangeness to the doers of mischief?
4 Sees he not my ways? - scribes all my paces?
5 If I walk with vanity or my foot hastens to deceit
6 weigh me in a balance of justness; Elohah knows my integrity.
7 If my step spreads from the way and my heart walks after my eyes; if any blemish adheres to my palms;
8 then have me seed and another eat: yes, uproot my offspring.
9 If a woman enticed my heart or I lurked at the portal of my friend;
10 then have my woman grind to another and others kneel to her.
11 For this is intrigue; yes, a judicial perversity:
12 a fire that consumes to Abaddon and roots out all my produce.
13 If I spurn the judgment of my servant or of my maid when they contend with me
14 What then work I when El rises? When he visits, what respond I?
15 He who worked me in the belly worked he not also him? - that one who prepared us in the womb?
16 If I withhold the poor from their desire, or finish off the eyes of the widow;
17 or eat my morsel myself alone and the orphan eats not;
18 - for as a father he grew up with me from my youth - led her from the belly of my mother.
19 If I have seen any destruct for want of robe or the needy without covering;
20 if neither his loins blessed me nor heated with the fleece of my lambs;
21 if I shook my hand against the orphan when I saw my help in the portal;
22 then may my shoulder fall from the blade and my arm break at the stem:
23 for calamity from El is a dread to me and by reason of his exalting I am not able.
24 If I set gold my hope or said to the ore, My confidence!
25 if I cheer because my valuables are great and because my hand found much;
26 if I see the light when it halals or the moon walking in esteem;
27 and my heart covertly duped or my mouth kiss my hand;
28 this also is a judicial perversity: for I denied El above.
29 If I cheer at the calamity of my hater, or waken when evil finds him;
30 I give not my palate to sin by asking him to oath his soul.
31 If not, men of my tent, say you, Who gives that we have of his flesh - we are not satisfied.
32 The sojourner stayed not overnight in the outways; I opened my doors to the wayward.
33 If I covered my rebellions as humanity by hiding my perversity in my bosom;
34 then I dread a great multitude - and the disrespect of families terrify me - and I hush and go not from the portal.
35 Who gives that someone hear me! Behold, my mark! Shadday, answer me! Man of contention, scribe a scroll!
36 If not, I lift it on my shoulder and fasten it to me as a crown.
37 I tell him my paces; as an eminent I go near him.
38 If my soil cries against me, and the furrows weep together;
39 if I have eaten the produce without silver or caused the masters to expire their soul;
40 may thorns grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Iyob are consummated.