Job 31:33
If after the manner of men I covered my transgressions, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom —
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 lodge in the street; my doors I opened to the roadside.
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 girdles.
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 shown them.'
Hosea 6:7But they like men have transgressed the covenant; there have they dealt treacherously against Me.
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 →