Job 31:23
For I have always feared God, like waves flowing over me, whose weight I was unable to bear.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
In Context
22then may my shoulder fall from its joint, and may my arm, with all its bones, be broken.
24If I have considered gold to be my strength, or if I have called purified gold ‘my Trust;’
Cross References
Job 13:11As soon as he moves himself, he will disturb you, and his dread will fall over you.
Job 21:20His eyes will see his own destruction, and he will drink from the wrath of the Almighty.
Job 42:5By paying attention with the ear, I have heard you, but now my eye sees you.
Joel 1:15“Ah, ah, ah, the day!” For the day of the Lord is near, and it will arrive, like a devastation, before the powerful.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:17-24
Job's Compassion to the Poor. ( b. c. 1520.) 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; 18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; 20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; 21 If I… Read the whole commentary →