Job 31:30
Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
In Context
29If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,
31If not — say ye, O men of my tent, 'O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.'
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 5:2Cause not thy mouth to hasten, and let not thy heart hasten to bring out a word before God, for God is in the heavens, and thou on the earth, therefore let thy words be few.
Matthew 5:22but I — I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.
Matthew 12:36'And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;
James 3:6and the tongue [is] a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.
1 Peter 2:22who did not commit sin, nor was guile 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 →