Job 31:33
If I covered up my transgressions like a common man, by hiding in my bosom my iniquity;
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
In Context
32In the street a stranger had not to lodge; my doors I held open to the roadside;
Cross References
Genesis 3:7And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they felt 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 did they see in thy house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there was nothing that I did not show them in my treasures.
Hosea 6:7But they, like an ordinary man, 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 →