Job 31:23
For calamity [from] God [is] a dread to me, || And because of His excellence I am not able.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
In Context
22Let my shoulder fall from its blade, || And the bone from my arm be broken.
24If I have made gold my confidence, || And to the pure gold have said, My trust;
Cross References
Job 13:11Does His excellence not terrify you? And His dread fall on you?
Job 21:20His own eyes see his destruction, || And he drinks of the wrath of the Mighty.
Job 42:5By the hearing of the ear I heard You, || And now my eye has seen You.
Psalms 119:120My flesh has trembled from Your fear, || And I have been afraid from Your judgments!
Joel 1:15And cry to YHWH, “Aah! For the day! For [the] Day of YHWH [is] near, || And it comes as destruction from [the] Almighty.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:17-24
Job's Compassion to the Poor. ( b. c. 1520.) 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; 18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; 20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; 21 If I… Read the whole commentary →