Job 31:28

Let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: 1 For I should have lied against the Lord Most High. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

In Context

27And if my heart was secretly deceived, 1 And if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it: 1

29And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies, 1 And my heart said, Aha! 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 17:2And if there should be found in any one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God gives thee, a man or a woman who shall do that which is evil before the Lord thy God, so as to transgress his covenant,

Deuteronomy 17:9then thou shalt arise and go up to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and thou shalt come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days, and they shall search out the matter and report the judgment to thee.

Joshua 24:27And Joshua said to the people, Behold, this stone shall be among you for a witness, for it has heard all the words that have been spoken to it by the Lord; for he has spoken to you this day; and this stone shall be among you for a witness in the last days, whenever ye shall deal falsely with the Lord my God.

Job 9:15For though I be righteous, he will not hearken to me: 1 I will entreat his judgment. 1

Job 31:11For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, 1 In the case of defiling another man’s wife. 1

Proverbs 30:9lest I be filled and become false, and say, Who sees me? or be poor and steal, and swear vainly by the name of God.

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 →

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