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OET (OET-LV) If it_has_been_deceived heart_my on a_woman and_at the_doorway neighbor’s_my I_have_lain_in_wait.
OET (OET-RV) If my heart has been enticed by a woman,
⇔ or I’ve watched for my chance at my neighbour’s door,
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
אִם־נִפְתָּ֣ה לִ֭בִּי עַל־אִשָּׁ֑ה
if enticed heart,my on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in woman/wife
When Job speaks of whether his heart has been opened by a woman, he is using an expression that means to be enticed by a woman. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “If my heart has been enticed by a woman”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
אִם־נִפְתָּ֣ה לִ֭בִּי עַל־אִשָּׁ֑ה
if enticed heart,my on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in woman/wife
Job is using one part of himself, his heart, meaning his desires, to mean all of him in the act of being enticed. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “If I have been enticed by a woman”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
אִם־נִפְתָּ֣ה לִ֭בִּי עַל־אִשָּׁ֑ה
if enticed heart,my on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in woman/wife
If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. However, be careful to translate Job’s meaning accurately. Job is not describing a situation in which a woman would be essentially responsible for seducing him. He is describing a situation in which he would not have exercised self-control over what he looked at (as described in verse 1) and in which he allowed the beauty of a woman to entice him to do something he knew was wrong. Alternate translation: “If I have allowed a woman to entice me”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
וְעַל־פֶּ֖תַח רֵעִ֣י אָרָֽבְתִּי
and,at door neighbor's,my lurked
The implication is that this woman is married and that Job would have waited in hiding outside her door for her to open the door and let him come into her home and have sexual relations with her at a time when her husband was away. You could indicate that in your translation if it would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “and I have waited for my neighbor’s wife to let me into her home so that I could have sexual relations with her”
31:1-40 Job called down curses on himself if he were guilty of the accusations made against him. Except for his mention of idolatry (31:26-27), Job addressed his fidelity to God in terms of the second half of the Ten Commandments, summarized by the command to “love your neighbor as yourself” (Lev 19:18; Rom 13:9).
OET (OET-LV) If it_has_been_deceived heart_my on a_woman and_at the_doorway neighbor’s_my I_have_lain_in_wait.
OET (OET-RV) If my heart has been enticed by a woman,
⇔ or I’ve watched for my chance at my neighbour’s door,
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.