Catholic Public Domain Version
"for I have not been given my throat to sin by asking for a curse on his soul; "
— Job 31:30, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.”
“(Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse); ”
“(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);”
“I have not even permitted my mouth to sin by asking for his life through a curse–”
“For I have not been given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul.”
“(For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)”
“Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.”
so that my heart rejoiced in secret and I kissed my hand with my mouth,
which is a very great iniquity and a denial against the most high God;
if I have been glad at the ruin of him who hated me and have exulted that evil found him,
for I have not been given my throat to sin by asking for a curse on his soul;
if the men around my tabernacle have not said: “He might give us some of his food, so that we will be filled,”
for the foreigner did not remain at the door, my door was open to the traveler;
if, as man does, I have hidden my sin and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom;