Job 31:33

Have I concealed my sins from others, hiding my wrongdoing deep inside me?

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In The King James Version

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

In Context

32I have never let strangers sleep in the street; I have opened my doors to travelers.

34Was I afraid of what everybody else would think, scared of the contempt families would show me, so that I kept quiet and didn't go outside?

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Cross References

Genesis 3:7Immediately they saw everything differently and realized they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves up.

Genesis 3:12“It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit from the tree, and I ate it,” Adam replied.

2 Kings 20:15“What did they see in your palace?” Isaiah asked. “They saw everything in my palace,” replied Hezekiah. “There wasn't anything in all my storehouses I didn't show them.”

Hosea 6:7But you, just like Adam, broke our agreement; there you were unfaithful to me.

1 John 1:8If we claim to be sinless we only fool 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 →

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