Job 31:33
if like Adam I have covered my transgressions by hiding my iniquity in my bosom
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
In Context
32(the sojourner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
Cross References
Genesis 3:7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Genesis 3:12And the man said, The woman whom thou gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.
2 Kings 20:15And he said, What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah answered, They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.
Hosea 6:7But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant. There they have dealt treacherously against me.
1 John 1:8If we say that we have no sin, we lead ourselves astray, and the truth is not in us.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:25-33
Job's Abhorrence of Idolatry. ( b. c. 1520.) 24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; 25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; 26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: 28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. 29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him… Read the whole commentary →