## Job Chapter 31

###### Job 31:1
[Job 31:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:1)

בְּ֭רִית כָּרַ֣תִּי לְעֵינָ֑י וּמָ֥ה אֶ֝תְבּוֹנֵ֗ן עַל־בְּתוּלָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
I have made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I look upon a virgin?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I made a covenant with my eyes [(not to gaze at a married woman)] and a virgin [(when this might cause me to lust her after she is married)].


###### Job 31:2
[Job 31:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:2)

וּמֶ֤ה חֵ֣לֶק אֱל֣וֹהַּ מִמָּ֑עַל וְֽנַחֲלַ֥ת שַׁ֝דַּ֗י מִמְּרֹמִֽים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For what would be my portion from God above, and my heritage from the Almighty on high?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
But what portion [i.e., what reward did I receive for this from] G d on high, and what inheritance from the Almighty in the heavens?


###### Job 31:3
[Job 31:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:3)

הֲלֹא־אֵ֥יד לְעַוָּ֑ל וְ֝נֵ֗כֶר לְפֹ֣עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Is not destruction due to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Is destruction not befitting the churl [(and not me)], and estrangement the workers of iniquity?


###### Job 31:4
[Job 31:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:4)

הֲלֹא־ה֭וּא יִרְאֶ֣ה דְרָכָ֑י וְֽכׇל־צְעָדַ֥י יִסְפּֽוֹר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Does he not see my ways, and count all my steps?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Does He not see my ways and count all my steps


###### Job 31:5
[Job 31:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:5)

אִם־הָלַ֥כְתִּי עִם־שָׁ֑וְא וַתַּ֖חַשׁ עַל־מִרְמָ֣ה רַגְלִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[to know] whether I have walked with vain men or whether my feet have hastened to deceit?


###### Job 31:6
[Job 31:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:6)

יִשְׁקְלֵ֥נִי בְמֹֽאזְנֵי־צֶ֑דֶק וְיֵדַ֥ע אֱ֝ל֗וֹהַּ תֻּמָּתִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Would that He weighed me in righteous scales, so that G d would know my innocence.


###### Job 31:7
[Job 31:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:7)

אִ֥ם־תִּטֶּ֣ה אַשֻּׁרִי֮ מִנִּ֢י הַ֫דָּ֥רֶךְ וְאַחַ֣ר עֵ֭ינַי הָלַ֣ךְ לִבִּ֑י וּ֝בְכַפַּ֗י דָּ֣בַק מֽאוּם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if anything has cleaved to my hands;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If my feet have strayed from the [proper] path, or if my heart went astray after my eyes, or if any blemish stuck to my palm,


###### Job 31:8
[Job 31:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:8)

אֶ֭זְרְעָה וְאַחֵ֣ר יֹאכֵ֑ל וְֽצֶאֱצָאַ֥י יְשֹׁרָֽשׁוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
then let me sow and another eat, and let my issue be uprooted.


###### Job 31:9
[Job 31:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:9)

אִם־נִפְתָּ֣ה לִ֭בִּי עַל־אִשָּׁ֑ה וְעַל־פֶּ֖תַח רֵעִ֣י אָרָֽבְתִּי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If my heart has been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If my heart was enticed by a woman and I lurked at my neighbor's door [(for his wife)],


###### Job 31:10
[Job 31:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:10)

תִּטְחַ֣ן לְאַחֵ֣ר אִשְׁתִּ֑י וְ֝עָלֶ֗יהָ יִכְרְע֥וּן אֲחֵרִֽין׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
then let my wife be "ground" by another and let others kneel over her.


###### Job 31:11
[Job 31:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:11)

כִּי־[הִ֥יא] (הוא) זִמָּ֑ה (והיא) [וְ֝ה֗וּא] עָוֺ֥ן פְּלִילִֽים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For that would be a heinous crime; yea, it would be iniquity to be punished by the judges.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For it [(such thought)] is lewdness and is a sin deserving punishment [(by affliction)].


###### Job 31:12
[Job 31:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:12)

כִּ֤י אֵ֣שׁ הִ֭יא עַד־אֲבַדּ֣וֹן תֹּאכֵ֑ל וּֽבְכׇל־תְּב֖וּאָתִ֣י תְשָׁרֵֽשׁ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For it is a fire that consumes to Avaddon, and would root out all my increase.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For it is a fire that consumes everything, and it would uproot all of my produce [(wherefore I shunned it)].


###### Job 31:13
[Job 31:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:13)

אִם־אֶמְאַ֗ס מִשְׁפַּ֣ט עַ֭בְדִּי וַאֲמָתִ֑י בְּ֝רִבָ֗ם עִמָּדִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Did I despise the complaint of my man-servant or maid-servant in their dispute with me?


###### Job 31:14
[Job 31:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:14)

וּמָ֣ה אֶ֭עֱשֶׂה כִּֽי־יָק֣וּם אֵ֑ל וְכִי־יִ֝פְקֹ֗ד מָ֣ה אֲשִׁיבֶֽנּוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
what then shall I do when God rises up? and when he remembers, what shall I answer him?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[No, rather I said:] What will I do if G d rises up [against me]? And if He reckons [this sin against me], how will I answer Him?


###### Job 31:15
[Job 31:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:15)

הֲֽלֹא־בַ֭בֶּטֶן עֹשֵׂ֣נִי עָשָׂ֑הוּ וַ֝יְכֻנֶ֗נּוּ בָּרֶ֥חֶם אֶחָֽד׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Did not he who made me in the belly make him? and did not the same one fashion us in the womb?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Did He not make him in the womb [of his mother as] He made me [in the womb of mine]? And one [G d] framed both of us] in the womb.


###### Job 31:16
[Job 31:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:16)

אִם־אֶ֭מְנַע מֵחֵ֣פֶץ דַּלִּ֑ים וְעֵינֵ֖י אַלְמָנָ֣ה אֲכַלֶּֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Have I withheld the desire of the poor? Have I made the eyes of the widow go wanting?


###### Job 31:17
[Job 31:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:17)

וְאֹכַ֣ל פִּתִּ֣י לְבַדִּ֑י וְלֹֽא־אָכַ֖ל יָת֣וֹם מִמֶּֽנָּה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless have not eaten thereof;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Did I eat my loaf alone and have no orphan eat of it?


###### Job 31:18
[Job 31:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:18)

כִּ֣י מִ֭נְּעוּרַי גְּדֵלַ֣נִי כְאָ֑ב וּמִבֶּ֖טֶן אִמִּ֣י אַנְחֶֽנָּה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
(for from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
But from my youth it [(the trait of charitableness)] has raised me as a father, and from the womb of my mother I have pursued it.


###### Job 31:19
[Job 31:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:19)

אִם־אֶרְאֶ֣ה א֭וֹבֵד מִבְּלִ֣י לְב֑וּשׁ וְאֵ֥ין כְּ֝ס֗וּת לָאֶבְיֽוֹן׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If I saw a lost one without a garment, or a poor man with no covering,


###### Job 31:20
[Job 31:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:20)

אִם־לֹ֣א בֵרְכ֣וּנִי חֲלָצָ֑ו וּמִגֵּ֥ז כְּ֝בָשַׂ֗י יִתְחַמָּֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
if his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
did his descendants not bless me? Was he not warmed with the shearings of my sheep?


###### Job 31:21
[Job 31:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:21)

אִם־הֲנִיפ֣וֹתִי עַל־יָת֣וֹם יָדִ֑י כִּֽי־אֶרְאֶ֥ה בַ֝שַּׁ֗עַר עֶזְרָתִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even though I saw my help in the gate:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If I [ever] raised my hand against the orphan, seeing my defense [i.e., that I would be acquitted] in the gate [of justice],


###### Job 31:22
[Job 31:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:22)

כְּ֭תֵפִי מִשִּׁכְמָ֣הֿ תִפּ֑וֹל וְ֝אֶזְרֹעִ֗י מִקָּנָ֥הֿ תִשָּׁבֵֽר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
then let my arm fall from my shoulder and my forearm be broken in its socket.


###### Job 31:23
[Job 31:23](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:23)

כִּ֤י פַ֣חַד אֵ֭לַי אֵ֣יד אֵ֑ל וּ֝מִשְּׂאֵת֗וֹ לֹ֣א אוּכָֽל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I could do nothing.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For I was in fear of G d's punishment, and I was restrained by His majesty.


###### Job 31:24
[Job 31:24](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:24)

אִם־שַׂ֣מְתִּי זָהָ֣ב כִּסְלִ֑י וְ֝לַכֶּ֗תֶם אָמַ֥רְתִּי מִבְטַחִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Did I make gold my hope and regard pure gold as my defense [(in cowing the poor)]?


###### Job 31:25
[Job 31:25](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:25)

אִם־אֶ֭שְׂמַח כִּֽי־רַ֣ב חֵילִ֑י וְכִֽי־כַ֝בִּ֗יר מָצְאָ֥ה יָדִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
if I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Did I rejoice in the abundance of my wealth or in the vast acquisitions of my hand [(causing the poor to envy me)]?


###### Job 31:26
[Job 31:26](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:26)

אִם־אֶרְאֶ֣ה א֭וֹר כִּ֣י יָהֵ֑ל וְ֝יָרֵ֗חַ יָקָ֥ר הֹלֵֽךְ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
if I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
When I saw the sun in its strength and the moon waxing in brightness,


###### Job 31:27
[Job 31:27](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:27)

וַיִּ֣פְתְּ בַּסֵּ֣תֶר לִבִּ֑י וַתִּשַּׁ֖ק יָדִ֣י לְפִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
and my heart had been secretly enticed, or my mouth had kissed my hand:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
was my heart enticed in secret [(to regard them as deities)], and did I press my hand to my mouth [(to keep my heart from being "overheard")]?


###### Job 31:28
[Job 31:28](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:28)

גַּם־ה֭וּא עָוֺ֣ן פְּלִילִ֑י כִּֽי־כִחַ֖שְׁתִּי לָאֵ֣ל מִמָּֽעַל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
this also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges: for I should have betrayed the God that is above.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
That, too, would have been a sin deserving of punishment, for I would have been denying G d on high.


###### Job 31:29
[Job 31:29](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:29)

אִם־אֶ֭שְׂמַח בְּפִ֣יד מְשַׂנְאִ֑י וְ֝הִתְעֹרַ֗רְתִּי כִּֽי־מְצָ֥אוֹ רָֽע׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Did I rejoice at the destruction of him who hates me, or did I exult when evil found him?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Did I rejoice in the downfall of my enemy and rise against him when he was beset with ill?


###### Job 31:30
[Job 31:30](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:30)

וְלֹא־נָתַ֣תִּי לַחֲטֹ֣א חִכִּ֑י לִשְׁאֹ֖ל בְּאָלָ֣ה נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Indeed I have not suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I did not [even] allow my palate to sin [against him] by demanding his soul through an oath.


###### Job 31:31
[Job 31:31](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:31)

אִם־לֹ֣א אָ֭מְרוּ מְתֵ֣י אׇהֳלִ֑י מִי־יִתֵּ֥ן מִ֝בְּשָׂר֗וֹ לֹ֣א נִשְׂבָּֽע׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Have not the men of my tent said, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Did the people of my tent [i.e., my servants] not say [(about me because of my "burdening" them with the duties of hospitality)]: "Would that we could eat of his flesh! We would not be sated"?


###### Job 31:32
[Job 31:32](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:32)

בַּ֭חוּץ לֹא־יָלִ֣ין גֵּ֑ר דְּ֝לָתַ֗י לָאֹ֥רַח אֶפְתָּֽח׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
But the stranger did not lodge in the street: I opened my doors to the traveller.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The stranger would never lie outside [my house]. My doors were open to the wayfarer.


###### Job 31:33
[Job 31:33](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:33)

אִם־כִּסִּ֣יתִי כְאָדָ֣ם פְּשָׁעָ֑י לִטְמ֖וֹן בְּחֻבִּ֣י עֲוֺנִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Have I covered my transgressions like Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Did I conceal my offenses as other men do, hiding my sins in secret places?


###### Job 31:34
[Job 31:34](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:34)

כִּ֤י אֶעֱר֨וֹץ**׀** הָ֘מ֤וֹן רַבָּ֗ה וּבוּז־מִשְׁפָּח֥וֹת יְחִתֵּ֑נִי וָ֝אֶדֹּ֗ם לֹא־אֵ֥צֵא פָֽתַח׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Did I fear the great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me? but I kept silence, and went not out of the door.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[(In the past)] I humbled a multitude [(of the wicked, but now)] the most despised of families frightens me, and I must be still and not leave my door.


###### Job 31:35
[Job 31:35](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:35)

מִ֤י יִתֶּן־לִ֨י**׀** שֹׁ֘מֵ֤עַֽ לִ֗י הֶן־תָּ֭וִי שַׁדַּ֣י יַעֲנֵ֑נִי וְסֵ֥פֶר כָּ֝תַ֗ב אִ֣ישׁ רִיבִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Oh that one would hear me! here is my mark, let the Almighty answer me! and would that my adversary would pen his writ!

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Would that someone listened to me! Let me [i.e., a true account of me] be written down. May the Almighty grant me [this], and let my disputant [too] write [down his argument in] a book.


###### Job 31:36
[Job 31:36](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:36)

אִם־לֹ֣א עַל־שִׁ֭כְמִי אֶשָּׂאֶ֑נּוּ אֶעֶנְדֶ֖נּוּ עֲטָר֣וֹת לִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
In truth, I would carry him [(the writer of my book)] on my shoulders. I would wear it [(my book)] as a crown.


###### Job 31:37
[Job 31:37](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:37)

מִסְפַּ֣ר צְ֭עָדַי אַגִּידֶ֑נּוּ כְּמוֹ־נָ֝גִ֗יד אֲקָֽרְבֶֽנּוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I would tell him the number of my steps and draw him close, as a dignitary.


###### Job 31:38
[Job 31:38](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:38)

אִם־עָ֭לַי אַדְמָתִ֣י תִזְעָ֑ק וְ֝יַ֗חַד תְּלָמֶ֥יהָ יִבְכָּיֽוּן׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If my land cry against me, or its furrows complain together;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If my land cries out against me [(for not having tithed its produce)] and its furrows bewail themselves [(for having plowed with ox and ass)] together —


###### Job 31:39
[Job 31:39](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:39)

אִם־כֹּ֭חָהּ אָכַ֣לְתִּי בְלִי־כָ֑סֶף וְנֶ֖פֶשׁ בְּעָלֶ֣יהָ הִפָּֽחְתִּי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to sigh:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If I have consumed its strength without pay [(for its workers)] and have aggrieved the soul of its owner [(the tenant-farmer, who works it)] —


###### Job 31:40
[Job 31:40](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Job/r/31:40)

תַּ֤חַת חִטָּ֨ה**׀** יֵ֥צֵא ח֗וֹחַ וְתַֽחַת־שְׂעֹרָ֥ה בׇאְשָׁ֑ה תַּ֝֗מּוּ דִּבְרֵ֥י אִיּֽוֹב׃{פ}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Iyyov are ended.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
then in place of wheat let thistles grow, and in place of barley, cockles. The words of Iyyov are ended.