Job 31:34

Then let me be confounded before the great multitude! Let the contempt of families cover me with shame! Yea, let me keep silence! let me never appear abroad!

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In The King James Version

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?

In Context

33Have I, after the manner of men, hidden my transgression, Concealing my iniquity in my bosom,

35O that there were one who would hear me! Behold my signature! let the Almighty answer me. And let mine adversary write down his charge!

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Cross References

Job 34:19How much less to him that is not partial to princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? For they are all the work of his hands.

Proverbs 29:25The fear of man bringeth a snare; But whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.

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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