Job 31:37
The number of my steps would I tell him: as [to] a prince would I go near unto him.—
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
In Context
36Surely upon my shoulder would I carry it: I would bind it as a crown unto me.
38If my land ever cried out because of me, or if its furrows wept together;
Cross References
Genesis 32:28And he said, Not Jacob shall any more be called thy name, but Israel; for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Job 9:3If he were desirous to enter into a contest with him, he could not give him one answer out of a thousand.
Job 14:16Yet now thou numberest my steps: and thou waitest not with [the punishment of] my sin.
Job 42:3Who is he that dareth to conceal [thy] counsel without knowledge? Truly I have spoken of what I understood not, of things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
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 →