Job 31:30
(I have certainly not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
In Context
29“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him
31if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 5:2Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
Matthew 5:22But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgement. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
Matthew 12:36I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgement.
James 3:6And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity amongst our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
1 Peter 2:22who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”
Matthew Henry on Job 31:25-33
Job's Abhorrence of Idolatry. ( b. c. 1520.) 24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; 25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; 26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: 28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. 29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him… Read the whole commentary →