Job 31:23
For Gods punishment was fearefull vnto me, and I could not be deliuered from his highnes.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
In Context
22Let mine arme fal from my shoulder, and mine arme be broken from the bone.
24If I made gold mine hope, or haue sayd to the wedge of golde, Thou art my confidence,
Cross References
Job 13:11Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?
Job 21:20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.
Job 42:5I haue heard of thee by the hearing of the eare, but now mine eye seeth thee.
Psalms 119:120My flesh trembleth for feare of thee, and I am afraide of thy iudgements.
Joel 1:15Alas: for the day, for the day of the Lord is at hand, and it commeth as a destruction from the Almightie.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:17-24
Job's Compassion to the Poor. ( b. c. 1520.) 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; 18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; 20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; 21 If I… Read the whole commentary →