Job 31:2

If I did not do what I promised, what would God who is in heaven [MTY] do to me [RHQ]? Almighty God would certainly not [RHQ] give me any reward!

Translation for Translators

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 solemnly promised myself that I would not look at a young woman with a desire to have sex with her.

3Previously I thought that surely [RHQ] it was unrighteous people who would experience calamities, and that it was those who do what is wrong who would experience disasters.

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Cross References

Job 27:13“ I will tell you what Almighty God does to wicked people, the things that he does to people who oppress others.

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 →

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