Verse 14
Job 31:14
Literal Standard Version
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Then what do I do when God (Elohim) arises? And when He inspects, || What do I answer Him?
Original Language Text
hebrew
וּ/מָ֣ה אֶֽ֭עֱשֶׂה כִּֽי יָק֣וּם אֵ֑ל וְ/כִֽי יִ֝פְקֹ֗ד מָ֣ה אֲשִׁיבֶֽ/נּוּ
English Translation
And what shall I do when God rises up? And when He calls to account, what shall I answer Him?
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Chapter 31 Context
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“I made a covenant for my eyes, || And how do I attend to a virgin?
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And what is the portion of God (Elohim) from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heigh...
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Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?
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Does He not see my ways, || And number all my steps?
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If I have walked with vanity, || And my foot hurries to deceit,
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He weighs me in righteous balances, || And God (Elohim) knows my integrity.
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If my step turns aside from the way, || And my heart has gone after my eyes, || And blemish has clea...
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Let me sow—and another eat, || And let my products be rooted out.
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If my heart has been enticed by a woman, || And I laid wait by the opening of my neighbor,
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Let my wife grind to another, || And let others bend over her.
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For it is a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity;
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For it is a fire, it consumes to destruction, || And takes root among all my increase,
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If I despise the cause of my manservant, || And of my handmaid, || In their contending with me,
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Then what do I do when God (Elohim) arises? And when He inspects, || What do I answer Him?
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Did He that made me in the womb not make him? Indeed, One prepares us in the womb.
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If I withhold the poor from pleasure, || And consume the eyes of the widow,
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And I eat my morsel by myself, || And the orphan has nothing to eat of it,
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(But from my youth || He grew up with me as with a father, || And from the belly of my mother I am l...
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If I see any perishing without clothing, || And there is no covering for the needy,
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If his loins have not blessed me, || And from the fleece of my sheep || He does not warm himself,
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If I have waved my hand at the fatherless, || When I see him in the gate of my court,
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Let my shoulder fall from its blade, || And the bone from my arm be broken.
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For calamity from God (Elohim) is a dread to me, || And because of His excellence I am not able.
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If I have made gold my confidence, || And to the pure gold have said, My trust;
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If I rejoice because my wealth is great, || And because my hand has found abundance,
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If I see the light when it shines, || And the precious moon walking,
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And my heart is enticed in secret, || And my hand kisses my mouth,
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It also is a judicial iniquity, || For I had lied to God (Elohim) above.
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If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, || And stirred up myself when evil found him,
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Indeed, I have not permitted my mouth to sin, || To ask with an oath his life.
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If not, say, O men of my tent: O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.
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A stranger does not lodge in the street, || I open my doors to the traveler.
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If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, || To hide my iniquity in my bosom,
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Because I fear a great multitude, || And the contempt of families frightens me, || Then I am silent,...
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Who gives to me a hearing? Behold, my mark. The Mighty One answers me, || And my adversary has writt...
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If not—on my shoulder I take it up, || I bind it as a crown on myself.
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The number of my steps I tell Him, || As a leader I approach Him.
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If my land cries out against me, || And together its furrows weep,
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If I consumed its strength without money, || And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breath...
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Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, || And instead of barley a useless weed!” The words of Job ar...
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