New American Standard Bible 1995
Job 34:31
31“For has anyone said to God, ‘I have borne chastisement; I will not offend anymore;
Job 34:31 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
- New International Version (NIV)“Suppose someone says to God, ‘I am guilty but will offend no more.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"For has anyone said to God, 'I have borne punishment; I will not offend any more;
- New King James Version (NKJV)“For has anyone said to God, ‘I have borne chastening; I will offend no more;
Context of Job 34:31
29When He keeps quiet, who then can condemn? And when He hides His face, who then can behold Him, That is, in regard to both nation and man?-- 30So that godless men would not rule Nor be snares of the people. “For has anyone said to God, ‘I have borne chastisement; I will not offend anymore; 32Teach me what I do not see; If I have done iniquity, I will not do it again’? 33Shall He recompense on your terms, because you have rejected it? For you must choose, and not I; Therefore declare what you know.
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כִּֽי־אֶל־אֵ֭ל הֶאָמַ֥ר נָשָׂ֗אתִי לֹ֣א אֶחְבֹּֽל׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 34:31
- Job 33:27He will sing to men and say, ‘I have sinned and perverted what is right, And it is not proper for me.
- Job 40:3Then Job answered the Lord and said,
- Job 42:6Therefore I retract, And I repent in dust and ashes.”
- Leviticus 26:41I also was acting with hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies--or if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that they then make amends for their iniquity,
- Ezra 9:13After all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and our great guilt, since You our God have requited us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us an escaped remnant as this,
- Nehemiah 9:33However, You are just in all that has come upon us; For You have dealt faithfully, but we have acted wickedly.
- Jeremiah 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim grieving, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, Like an untrained calf; Bring me back that I may be restored, For You are the Lord my God.
- Daniel 9:7“Righteousness belongs to You, O Lord, but to us open shame, as it is this day--to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those who are nearby and those who are far away in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of their unfaithful deeds which they have committed against You.
- Micah 7:9I will bear the indignation of the Lord Because I have sinned against Him, Until He pleads my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me out to the light, And I will see His righteousness.
Commentaries on Job 34:31
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 31Surely it is meet to be said unto God - This is Elihu's exhortation to Job: Humble thyself before God, and say, "I have suffered - I will not offend."Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 31Surely it is meet to be said unto God - It is evident that this verse commences a new strain of remark, and that it is designed particularly to bring Job to proper reflections in view of what had occurred. There has been, however, much diversity of opinion about the meaning of this and the following verses. Schultens enumerates no less than “fifteen” different interpretations which have been given of this verse. The “general” meaning seems to be, that a…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 31-37Verses 31-37 When we reprove for what is amiss, we must direct to what is good. Job's friends would have had him own himself a wicked man. Let will only oblige him to own that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. Let us, in giving reproof, not make a matter worse than it is. Elihu directs Job to humble himself before God for his sins, and to accept the punishment. Also to pray to God to discover his sins to him. A good man is willing to know the worst of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 31Suppose someone says: Elihu posed the indirect question, "Job, why won't you admit it?"Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3131. Job accordingly says so (Job 40:3-5; Mi 7:9; Le 26:41). It was to lead him to this that Elihu was sent. Though no hypocrite, Job, like all, had sin; therefore through affliction he was to be brought to humble himself under God. All sorrow is a proof of the common heritage of sin, in which the godly shares; and therefore he ought to regard it as a merciful correction. Umbreit and Maurer lose this by translating, as the Hebrew will bear, "Has any a…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 34
- 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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