Job 31:33
If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
In Context
32The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.
Cross References
Genesis 3:7And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they perceived themselves to be naked, they sewed together fig leaves, and made themselves aprons.
Genesis 3:12And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
2 Kings 20:15And he said: What did they see in thy house? Ezechias said: They saw all the things that are in my house: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewn them.
Hosea 6:7But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant, there have they dealt treacherously against me.
1 John 1:8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, 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 →