Job 31:37
I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
In Context
36Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown;
38If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;
Cross References
Genesis 32:28And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.
Job 9:3If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.
Job 14:16For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.
Job 42:3Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.
Ephesians 3:12By whom we come near to God without fear through faith in him.
1 John 3:19In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,
Matthew Henry on Job 31:34-40
Job's Protestation of His Integrity. ( b. c. 1520.) 33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: 34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door? 35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. 36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. 37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as… Read the whole commentary →