Parallel Bible results for "job 31:29-39"

Job 31:29-39

29 "If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him,

29 “If I have rejoiced at my enemy’s misfortune or gloated over the trouble that came to him—

30 neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

30 I have not allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse against their life—

31 If the men of my tent said not, `Oh that we had of his flesh! We cannot be satisfied'.

31 if those of my household have never said, ‘Who has not been filled with Job’s meat?’—

32 The stranger did not lodge in the street, but I opened my doors to the traveler.

32 but no stranger had to spend the night in the street, for my door was always open to the traveler—

33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

33 if I have concealed my sin as people do,by hiding my guilt in my heart

34 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?

34 because I so feared the crowd and so dreaded the contempt of the clans that I kept silent and would not go outside—

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!

35 (“Oh, that I had someone to hear me! I sign now my defense—let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser put his indictment in writing.

36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

36 Surely I would wear it on my shoulder, I would put it on like a crown.

37 I would declare unto Him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto Him.

37 I would give him an account of my every step; I would present it to him as to a ruler.)—

38 "If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain,

38 “if my land cries out against me and all its furrows are wet with tears,

39 if I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life,

39 if I have devoured its yield without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,