Job 31:2
For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
In Context
1“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
3Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
Cross References
Job 27:13This is the wicked man’s portion from God—the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:2-9
Job's Vindication of Himself. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? 2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? 3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? 4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? 5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; 6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. 7 If my step hath… Read the whole commentary →