Job 31:35

(Oh that I had a hearer), 1 And if I had not feared the hand of the Lord; 1 And as to the written charge which I had against anyone, 1

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In The King James Version

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

In Context

34(For I did not stand in awe of a great multitude, so as not to declare boldly before them): 1 And if too I permitted a poor man to go out of my door with an empty bosom 1

36I would place it as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it. 1

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Cross References

Job 13:3Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, 1 And I will reason before him, if he will. 1

Job 13:21Withhold thine hand from me: 1 And let not thy fear terrify me. 1

Job 13:24Wherefore hidest thou thyself from me, 1 And deemest me thine enemy? 1

Job 19:7Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: 1 Or I will cry out, but there is nowhere judgment. 1

Job 19:23For oh that my words were written, 1 And that they were recorded in a book forever, 1

Job 27:7Nay rather, but let mine enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly, 1 And they that rise up against me, as the destruction of transgressors. 1

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 →

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