Job 31:37
And if not, tearing it up I would return it, 1 Having taken nothing from the debtor. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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
36I would place it as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it. 1
38If at any time the land groaned against me, 1 And if its furrows mourned together; 1
Cross References
Genesis 32:28And he said to him, What is thy name? and he answered, Jacob.
Job 9:3For if he would enter into judgment with him, 1 God would not hearken to him, 1 So that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand. 1
Job 14:16But thou hast numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape thee? 1
Job 42:3For who is he that hides counsel from thee? 1 Or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from thee? 1 And who will tell me what I knew not, 1 Great and wonderful things which I understood not? 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 →