30 [a]No, (A)I have not [b]allowed my mouth to sin
By asking for his life in (B)a curse.
31 Have the people of my tent not said,
‘Who can [c]find one who has not been (C)satisfied with his meat’?
32 The stranger has not spent the night outside,
For I have opened my doors to the [d]traveler.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:30 Lit And
  2. Job 31:30 Lit given my palate
  3. Job 31:31 Lit give
  4. Job 31:32 MT way

30 I have not allowed my mouth to sin
    by invoking a curse against their life(A)
31 if those of my household have never said,
    ‘Who has not been filled with Job’s meat?’(B)
32 but no stranger had to spend the night in the street,
    for my door was always open to the traveler(C)

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30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.

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