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Job 31:28
Job 31:28 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
- New International Version (NIV)then these also would be sins to be judged, for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.
- English Standard Version (ESV)this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have been false to God above.
- New King James Version (NKJV)This also would be an iniquity deserving of judgment, For I would have denied God who is above.
Context of Job 31:28
26If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness, 27And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand: This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the God who is above. 29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him; 30(Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)
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גַּם־ה֭וּא עָוֹ֣ן פְּלִילִ֑י כִּֽי־כִחַ֖שְׁתִּי לָאֵ֣ל מִמָּֽעַל׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 31:28
- Job 31:11For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity [to be judged by] the judges:
- Job 9:15Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.
- Job 23:7There would an upright man reason with him; and I should be delivered for ever from my judge.
- Genesis 18:25Far be it from thee to do so, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that the righteous should be as the wicked — far be it from thee! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?
- Deuteronomy 17:2If there be found in thy midst in any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that doeth what is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
- Judges 11:27So I have not sinned against thee, but it is thou who doest me wrong in making war against me. Jehovah, the Judge, be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon!
- Psalms 50:6And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God executeth judgment himself. Selah.
- Hebrews 12:23the universal gathering; and to [the] assembly of the firstborn [who are] registered in heaven; and to God, judge of all; and to [the] spirits of just [men] made perfect;
- Joshua 24:23Now therefore put away the strange gods that are among you, and incline your heart unto Jehovah the God of Israel.
- Proverbs 30:9lest I be full and deny [thee], and say, Who is Jehovah? or lest I be poor and steal, and outrage the name of my God.
- 2 Peter 2:1But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also among you false teachers, who shall bring in by the bye destructive heresies, and deny the master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction;
- 1 John 2:23Whoever denies the Son has not the Father either; he who confesses the Son has the Father also.
- Jude 1:4For certain men have got in unnoticed, they who of old were marked out beforehand to this sentence, ungodly [persons], turning the grace of our God into dissoluteness, and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.
Commentaries on Job 31:28
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 28For I should have denied the God that is above - Had I paid Divine adoration to them, I should have thereby denied the God that made them.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 28This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judqe - Note Job 31:11. Among the Hebrews idolatry was an offence punishable by death by stoning; Deuteronomy 17:2-7. It is possible, also, that this might have been elsewhere in the patriarchal times a crime punishable in this manner. At all events, Job regarded it as a heinous offence, and one of which the magistrate ought to take cognizance. For I should have denied the God that is above - The worship of…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 24-32Verses 24-32 Job protests, 1. That he never set his heart upon the wealth of this world. How few prosperous professors can appeal to the Lord, that they have not rejoiced because their gains were great! Through the determination to be rich, numbers ruin their souls, or pierce themselves with many sorrows. 2. He never was guilty of idolatry. The source of idolatry is in the heart, and it corrupts men, and provokes God to send judgments upon a nation. 3. He…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 28In Israel, the role of judges was to punish those worshiping idols (false gods) by execution (see 31:11; Deuteronomy 17:2–7). Denying God on high violated the first commandment (Deuteronomy 5:7).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2828. The Mosaic law embodied subsequently the feeling of the godly from the earliest times against idolatry, as deserving judicial penalties: being treason against the Supreme King (De 13:9; 17:2-7; Eze 8:14-18). This passage therefore does not prove Job to have been subsequent to Moses.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 31
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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