Job 31:29
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.
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—
- KJV
- If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
- WEB
- “If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him
- ASV
- If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;
- DARBY
- If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him;
- BLB
- If I have rejoiced in the destruction of one hating me, or raised myself up because evil found him—
- ÅB
- Har jeg gledet meg ved min fiendes uferd og jublet når ulykken rammet ham?
- OTB
- Har jeg gledet meg over min fiendes fall,
Eller blitt glad når ulykke fant ham? - B1930
- Har jeg gledet mig ved min fiendes uferd og jublet når ulykken rammet ham?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 24:17–18
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
Read in contextProverbs 17:5
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
Read in contextPsalms 35:13–14
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
Read in contextObadiah 1:12
But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
Read in contextPsalms 35:25–26
Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Read in context2 Samuel 1:12
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
Read in context2 Samuel 4:10–11
When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:
Read in context2 Samuel 16:5–8
And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.
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