Job 31:30
Indeed, I have not permitted my mouth to sin, || To ask with an oath his life.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
In Context
29If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, || And stirred up myself when evil found him,
31If not, say, O men of my tent: O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 5:2Do not cause your mouth to hurry, and do not let your heart hurry to bring out a word before God, for God is in the heavens, and you on the earth, therefore let your words be few.
Matthew 5:22but I say to you that everyone who is angry at his brother without cause will be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Stupid, will be in danger of the Sanhedrin, and whoever may say, Moron, will be in danger of the Gehenna of fire.
Matthew 12:36And I say to you that every idle word that men may speak, they will give for it a reckoning in [the] day of judgment;
James 3:6And the tongue [is] a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
1 Peter 2:22who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in His mouth,
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 →