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30     No. I have not permitted my mouth to sin
        by uttering a curse against his very life.
31     Have my guests ever left my dwelling saying,
        Anyone still hungry? Who didn’t get enough to eat?”
32     Have I ever left the foreigner to sleep outside?
        No. My door was always open to the traveler.

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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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30 (A)(Indeed I have not allowed my mouth to sin
By asking for a curse on his [a]soul);
31 If the men of my tent have not said,
‘Who is there that has not been satisfied with his meat?’
32 (B)(But no sojourner had to lodge in the street,
For I have opened my doors to the [b]traveler);

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:30 Or life
  2. Job 31:32 So with LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg.; MT road