Job 31:33
If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
In Context
32In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.
Cross References
Genesis 3:7and the eyes of them both are opened, and they know that they [are] naked, and they sew fig-leaves, and make to themselves girdles.
Genesis 3:12and the man saith, 'The woman whom Thou didst place with me — she hath given to me of the tree — and I do eat.'
2 Kings 20:15And he saith, 'What saw they in thy house?' and Hezekiah saith, 'All that [is] in my house they saw; there hath not been a thing that I have not shewed them among my treasures.'
Hosea 6:7And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, There they dealt treacherously against me.
1 John 1:8if we may say — 'we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, 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 →