God’s Word Translation
Job 31:19-34
19If I have seen anyone die because he had no clothes or a poor person going naked….
20(If his body didn’t bless me, or the wool from my sheep didn’t keep him warm….)
21If I have shaken my fist at an orphan because I knew that others would back me up in court,
22⌞then⌟ let my shoulder fall out of its socket, and let my arm be broken at the elbow.
23“A disaster from God terrifies me. In the presence of his majesty I can do nothing.
24“If I put my confidence in gold or said to fine gold, ‘I trust you’….
25If I enjoyed being very rich because my hand had found great ⌞wealth⌟….
26If I saw the light shine or the moon move along in its splendor
27so that my heart was secretly tempted, and I threw them a kiss with my hand,
28then that, too, would be a criminal offense, and I would have denied God above.
29“If I enjoyed the ruin of my enemy or celebrated when harm came to him
30(even though I didn’t speak sinfully by calling down a curse on his life)….
31“If the people who were in my tent had said, ‘We wish we had never filled ⌞our stomachs⌟ with his food’….
32(The visitor never spent the night outside, because I opened my door to the traveler.)
33“If I have covered my disobedience like Adam and kept my sin to myself,
34because I dreaded the large, noisy crowd and because the contempt of the ⌞local⌟ mobs terrified me so that I kept quiet and didn’t go outside….
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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