Job 31:37
With each of my steps, I would pronounce and offer it, as if to a prince.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
36which I would then carry on my shoulder and wrap around me like a crown?
38So, if my land cries out against me, and if its furrows weep with it,
Cross References
Genesis 32:28But he said, “Your name will not be called Jacob, but Israel; for if you have been strong against God, how much more will you prevail against men?”
Job 9:3If he chooses to contend with him, he is not able to respond to him once out of a thousand times.
Job 14:16Indeed, you have numbered my steps, but you have been lenient with my sins.
Job 42:3So, who is it that would disguise a lack of knowledge as counsel? Therefore, I have been speaking foolishly, about things whose measure exceeds my knowledge.
Ephesians 3:12In him we trust, and so we approach with confidence, through his faith.
1 John 3:19In this way, we will know that we are of the truth, and we will commend our hearts in his sight.
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 →