Job 31:33
If I covered, like Adam, my transgressions, by hiding in my bosom mine iniquity,
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
In Context
32Outside, the sojourner lodged not for the night, My doors—to the wayfarer, I threw open.
Cross References
Genesis 3:7Then were opened the eyes of them both, and they knew that, naked, they were,—so they tacked together fig-leaves, and made for themselves girdles,
Genesis 3:12And the man said,—The woman whom thou didst put with me, she, gave me of the tree, so I did eat.
2 Kings 20:15And he said—What have they seen in thy house? Then said Hezekiah—All that is in my house, have they seen, there was, nothing, that I shewed them not, among my treasures.
Hosea 6:7But, they, like Adam, have transgressed a covenant,—There, have they dealt treacherously with me.
1 John 1:8If we say—Sin, have we none! we are deceiving, ourselves, and, the truth, is not in us.
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 →