Job 31:33
If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
In Context
32(The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller);
Cross References
Genesis 3:7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Genesis 3:12And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
2 Kings 20:15And he said, What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed 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 →