Job 31:23
For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
22Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.
24If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence:
Cross References
Job 13:11As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his dread shall fall upon you.
Job 21:20His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Job 42:5With the hearing of the ear, I have heard thee, but now my eye seeth thee.
Joel 1:15Ah, ah, ah, for the day: because the day of the Lord is at hand, and it shall come like destruction from the mighty.
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 →