Job 31:35

Why won't anyone listen to what I'm saying! I'm signing my name to endorse everything I've said. Let the Almighty answer me. Let my accuser write down what he is charging me with.

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In The King James Version

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

In Context

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?

36I would hold them up high; I would wear them on my head like a crown.

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Cross References

Job 13:3But I would still like to speak to the Almighty: I want to prove myself to God!

Job 13:21Stop beating me, and stop terrifying me.

Job 13:24Why are you unfriendly towards me? Why do you treat me as your enemy?

Job 19:7Even though I cry for help, I get no answer; even though I shout my objections, I get no justice.

Job 19:23I wish my words could be written down, recorded in a book,

Job 27:7May my enemy become like the wicked; may those who oppose me become like those who do evil.

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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