Job 31:26

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;

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.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,
KJV
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
WEB
if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,
ASV
If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,
DARBY
If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,
BLB
if I have seen the light when it shines, or the moon moving [in] splendor,
ÅB
Når jeg så sollyset, hvordan det strålte, og månen, hvor herlig den skred fram,
OTB
Hvis jeg har blitt betatt av solen når den skinte
Eller månen i sin prakt,
B1930
Når jeg så sollyset, hvorledes det strålte, og månen, hvor herlig den skred frem,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Ezekiel 8:16

    And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

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  • Deuteronomy 4:19

    And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

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  • Deuteronomy 17:3

    And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

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  • 2 Kings 23:11

    And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

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  • Jeremiah 8:2

    And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

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  • 2 Kings 23:5

    And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

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  • Jeremiah 44:17

    But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

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  • Psalms 8:3–4

    When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

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