Job 31:23
For a dread unto me [is] calamity [from] God, And because of His excellency I am not able.
Young's Literal Translation
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
22My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.
24If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, 'My trust,'
Cross References
Job 13:11Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you?
Job 21:20His own eyes see his destruction, And of the wrath of the Mighty he drinketh.
Job 42:5By the hearing of the ear I heard Thee, And now mine eye hath seen Thee.
Psalms 119:120Trembled from Thy fear hath my flesh, And from Thy judgments I have been afraid!
Joel 1:15And cry unto Jehovah, 'Alas for the day! For near [is] a day of Jehovah, And as destruction from the mighty it cometh.
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 →