New King James Version
Job 31:14
14What then shall I do when God rises up? When He punishes, how shall I answer Him?
Job 31:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
- New International Version (NIV)what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when called to account?
- English Standard Version (ESV)what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?
- New Living Translation (NLT)how could I face God? What could I say when he questioned me?
Context of Job 31:14
12For that would be a fire that consumes to destruction, And would root out all my increase. 13“If I have despised the cause of my male or female servant When they complained against me, What then shall I do when God rises up? When He punishes, how shall I answer Him? 15Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb? 16“If I have kept the poor from their desire, Or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
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וּמָ֣ה אֶֽ֭עֱשֶׂה כִּֽי־יָק֣וּם אֵ֑ל וְכִֽי־יִ֝פְקֹ֗ד מָ֣ה אֲשִׁיבֶֽנּוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 31:14
- Job 9:32“For He is not a man, as I am, That I may answer Him, And that we should go to court together.
- Job 10:2I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; Show me why You contend with me.
- Psalms 7:6Arise, O Lord, in Your anger; Lift Yourself up because of the rage of my enemies; Rise up for me to the judgment You have commanded!
- Psalms 9:12When He avenges blood, He remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the humble.
- Psalms 10:12Arise, O Lord! O God, lift up Your hand! Do not forget the humble.
- Psalms 44:21Would not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
- Psalms 76:9When God arose to judgment, To deliver all the oppressed of the earth. Selah
- Psalms 143:2Do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For in Your sight no one living is righteous.
- Isaiah 10:3What will you do in the day of punishment, And in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory?
- Zechariah 2:13Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for He is aroused from His holy habitation!”
- Hosea 9:7The days of punishment have come; The days of recompense have come. Israel knows! The prophet is a fool, The spiritual man is insane, Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.
- Micah 7:4The best of them is like a brier; The most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge; The day of your watchman and your punishment comes; Now shall be their perplexity.
- Mark 7:2Now when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault.
- James 2:13For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
- Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Commentaries on Job 31:14
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14What then shall I do when God riseth up? - That is, when he rises up to pronounce sentence upon people, or to execute impartial justice. Job admits that if he had done injustice to a servant, he would have reason to dread the divine indignation, and that he could have no excuse. “I tremble,” said President Jefferson, speaking of slavery in the United States “when I remember that God is just!” Notes on Virginia. And when he visiteth - When he comes to…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-15Verses 9-15 All the defilements of the life come from a deceived heart. Lust is a fire in the soul: those that indulge it, are said to burn. It consumes all that is good there, and lays the conscience waste. It kindles the fire of God's wrath, which, if not quenched by the blood of Christ, will consume even to eternal destruction. It consumes the body; it consumes the substance. Burning lusts bring burning judgments. Job had a numerous household, and he…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13-15Rejected … manservant or maidservant: This might refer to violating the fourth commandment (Deuteronomy 5:12–15). He who made me in the womb also make them: Job applied the idea of being made in God's image to the poor person and even to slaves (Proverbs 14:31; 22:2).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 13-2313-23. Job affirms his freedom from unfairness towards his servants, from harshness and oppression towards the needy. despise the cause--refused to do them justice.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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