Job 31:21-31

21 if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, knowing that I had influence in court,
22 then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let it be broken off at the joint.
23 For I dreaded destruction from God, and for fear of his splendor I could not do such things.
24 “If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’
25 if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained,
26 if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,
27 so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,
28 then these also would be sins to be judged, for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.
29 “If I have rejoiced at my enemy’s misfortune or gloated over the trouble that came to him—
30 I have not allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse against their life—
31 if those of my household have never said, ‘Who has not been filled with Job’s meat?’—

Cross References 20

  • 1. S Job 22:7; James 1:27; Job 22:9
  • 2. S Job 29:7,9
  • 3. Numbers 15:30; Job 5:15; Job 38:15; Psalms 10:15; Psalms 37:17; Psalms 137:5
  • 4. S Job 10:3; S Job 30:15
  • 5. Job 13:11
  • 6. S Genesis 20:11
  • 7. S Job 22:25
  • 8. Matthew 6:24; Mark 10:24; Luke 12:15
  • 9. S Genesis 12:16; Psalms 49:6; Psalms 52:7; Psalms 62:10; Isaiah 10:14
  • 10. S Job 22:24; Ezekiel 28:5; Luke 12:20-21
  • 11. S Genesis 1:16; Ezekiel 8:16
  • 12. Job 25:5
  • 13. S Deuteronomy 11:16; S Job 24:15; James 1:14
  • 14. Jeremiah 8:2; Jeremiah 16:11
  • 15. S Genesis 38:24; Deuteronomy 17:2-7
  • 16. S Numbers 11:20; Ezekiel 8:16
  • 17. S Numbers 14:1; Psalms 35:15; Obadiah 1:12; Matthew 5:44
  • 18. Proverbs 17:5; Proverbs 24:17-18
  • 19. Job 5:3; Romans 12:14
  • 20. S Job 22:7
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