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26 
If I beheld the sun [as an object of worship] when it shone
Or the moon going in its splendor,
27 
And my heart became secretly enticed [by them],
And my hand threw a kiss from my mouth [in respect to them],
28 
This also would have been [a heinous] sin calling for judgment,
For I would have denied God above.(A)

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26 If I have (A)looked at the [a]sun when it shone,
Or the moon going in splendor,
27 And my heart was secretly enticed,
And my hand [b]threw a kiss from my mouth,
28 That too would have been (B)a guilty deed calling for [c]judgment,
For I would have (C)denied God above.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:26 Lit light
  2. Job 31:27 Lit kissed my mouth
  3. Job 31:28 Lit judges