God’s Word Translation
Job 31:33
33“If I have covered my disobedience like Adam and kept my sin to myself,
Job 31:33 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
- New International Version (NIV)if I have concealed my sin as people do, by hiding my guilt in my heart
- English Standard Version (ESV)if I have concealed my transgressions as others do by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
- New King James Version (NKJV)If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, By hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
Context of Job 31:33
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.) “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…. 35“If only I had someone who would listen to me! Look, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me. Let the prosecutor write ⌞his complaint⌟ on a scroll.
Read all of Job 31Job 31:33 word by word
אִם־כִּסִּ֣יתִי כְאָדָ֣ם פְּשָׁעָ֑י לִטְמ֖וֹן בְּחֻבִּ֣י עֲוֹֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 31:33
- Genesis 3:7Then their eyes were opened, and they both realized that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made clothes for themselves.
- Joshua 7:11Israel has sinned. They have ignored the requirements that I have placed on them. They have taken what I claimed for myself and put it among their own goods. They have not only stolen, but they have also lied.
- Proverbs 28:13Whoever covers over his sins does not prosper. Whoever confesses and abandons them receives compassion.
- Hosea 6:7“Like Adam, you rejected the promise. You were unfaithful to me.
- Acts 5:8So Peter asked her, “Tell me, did you sell the land for that price?” She answered, “Yes, that was the price.”
- 1 John 1:8If we say, “We aren’t sinful” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Commentaries on Job 31:33
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 33If I covered my transgressions as Adam - Here is a most evident allusion to the fall. Adam transgressed the commandment of his Maker, and he endeavored to conceal it; first, by hiding himself among the trees of the garden: "I heard thy voice, and went and Hid myself;" secondly, by laying the blame on his wife: "The woman gave me, and I did eat;" and thirdly, by charging the whole directly on God himself: "The woman which Thou Gavest Me to be with me, She…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 33If I covered my transgressions as Adam - That is, if I have attempted to hide or conceal them; if, conscious of guilt, I have endeavored to cloak my sins, and to appear righteous. There has been great variety of opinion about the meaning of this expression. The margin reads it, “After the manner of men.” Luther, renders it, “Have I covered my wickedness as a man” - Habe ich meine Schalkheit wie ein Menseh gedecht. Coverdale, “Have I ever done any wicked…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 33-40Verses 33-40 Job clears himself from the charge of hypocrisy. We are loth to confess our faults, willing to excuse them, and to lay the blame upon others. But he that thus covers his sins, shall not prosper, Pr 28:13. He speaks of his courage in what is good, as an evidence of his sincerity in it. When men get estates unjustly, they are justly deprived of comfort from them; it was sown wheat, but shall come up thistles. What men do not come honestly by…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-40Job called down wrong against himself (curses) if he was guilty of the accusations against him. Apart from mentioning idolatry (worship of false gods), Job spoke about how loyal he was to God by focusing on the second half of the Ten Commandments (31:26–27). The summary of these is: “love your neighbor as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18; Romans 13:9).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3333. Adam--translated by Umbreit, "as men do" (Ho 6:7, where see Margin). But English Version is more natural. The very same word for "hiding" is used in Ge 3:8, 10, of Adam hiding himself from God. Job elsewhere alludes to the flood. So he might easily know of the fall, through the two links which connect Adam and Abraham (about Job's time), namely, Methuselah and Shem. Adam is representative of fallen man's propensity to concealment (Pr 28:13). It was…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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