Job 31:34
32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
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Compare
- BSB
- because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—
- KJV
- Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
- WEB
- because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—
- ASV
- Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door-
- DARBY
- Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door,
- BLB
- because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of the clans terrified me and I kept silent, not going out the door—
- ÅB
- fordi jeg fryktet den store mengde og var redd for de fornemme slekters forakt, så jeg tidde stille og ikke gikk ut av min dør?
- OTB
- Fordi jeg var redd for den store mengden,
Og familiers forakt gjorde meg nervøs,
Og jeg holdt meg taus og gikk ikke ut av dørene? - B1930
- fordi jeg fryktet den store mengde og var redd for de fornemme slekters forakt, så jeg tidde stille og ikke gikk ut av min dør?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 23:2
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
Read in contextProverbs 29:25
The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.
Read in contextProverbs 24:11–12
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
Read in contextNehemiah 13:28
And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.
Read in contextExodus 32:27
And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
Read in contextJob 34:19
How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.
Read in contextJeremiah 38:16
So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.
Read in contextJob 22:8
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
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