Verse 3
Job 31:3
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
3
Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?
Original Language Text
hebrew
הֲ/לֹא אֵ֥יד לְ/עַוָּ֑ל וְ֝/נֵ֗כֶר לְ/פֹ֣עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן
English Translation
Is there not a witness to evil, and a reminder for those who do iniquity?
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 31 Context
1
I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.
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For what part should God (Elohim) from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on h...
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Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?
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Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?
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If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit:
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Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God (Elohim) know my simplicity.
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If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cle...
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Then let me sow and let another eat: and let my offspring be rooted out.
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If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door:
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Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.
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For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.
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12
It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.
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13
If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any contro...
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For what shall I do when God (Elohim) shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I a...
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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?
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If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:
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If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:
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(For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb :)
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If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no coverin...
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If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:
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If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:
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Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.
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For I have always feared God (Elohim) as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to be...
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If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence:
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If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.
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If I beheld the sun when it shined, and the moon going in brightness:
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And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth:
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Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God (Elohim).
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If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.
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For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul.
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31
If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?
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32
The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.
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If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.
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If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and...
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Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth...
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That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?
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37
At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.
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38
If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn:
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If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof...
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40
Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.
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