Job 31:37
I would disclose to him all my steps; I would approach him like a prince.
Noyes Bible
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
36Truly I would wear it upon my shoulder; I would bind it upon me as a crown.
38If my land cry out against me, And its furrows bewail together;
Cross References
Job 9:3If he choose to contend with him, He cannot answer him to one charge of a thousand.
Job 14:16But now thou numberest my steps; Thou watchest over my sins.
Job 42:3Who is he that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Thus have I uttered what I understood not; Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not:
Ephesians 3:12in whom we have our boldness and our access in confidence, through faith in him.
1 John 3:19And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him;
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 →