Job 31:34

If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and I have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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?

In Context

33If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.

35Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,

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Cross References

Exodus 32:27And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Put every man his sword upon his thigh: go, and return from gate to gate through the midst of the camp, and let every man kill his brother, and friend, and neighbour.

Nehemiah 5:7And my heart thought with myself: and I rebuked the nobles and magistrates, and said to them: Do you every one ex- act usury of your brethren ? And I gathered together a great assembly against them,

Nehemiah 13:28And one of the sons of Joiada the son of Eliasib the high priest, was son in law to Sanaballat the Horonite, and I drove him from me.

Esther 4:14For if thou wilt now hold thy peace, the Jews shall be delivered by some other occasion: and thou, and thy father's house shall perish. And who knoweth whether thou art not therefore come to the kingdom, that thou mightest be ready in such a time as this?

Job 34:19Who accepteth not the persons of princes : nor hath regarded the tyrant, when he contended against the poor man : for all are the work of his hands.

Proverbs 29:25He that feareth man, shall quickly fall: he that trusteth in the Lord, shall be set on high.

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 →

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