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31:1 “I made <03772> a covenant <01285> with my eyes <05869>; how <04100> then could I entertain thoughts <0995> against <05921> a virgin <01330>? 31:2 What <04100> then would be one’s lot <02506> from God <0433> above <04605>, one’s heritage <05159> from the Almighty <07706> on high <04791>? 31:3 Is it not <03808> misfortune <0343> for the unjust <05767>, and disaster <05235> for those who work <06466> iniquity <0205>? 31:4 Does he <01931> not <03808> see <07200> my ways <01870> and count <05608> all <03605> my steps <06806>? 31:5 If <0518> I have walked <01980> in falsehood <07723>, and if my foot <07272> has hastened <02363> to deceit <04820>– 31:6 let him weigh <08254> me with honest <06664> scales <03976>; then God <0433> will discover <03045> my integrity <08538>. 31:7 If <0518> my footsteps <0838> have strayed <05186> from <04480> the way <01870>, if my heart <03820> has gone <01980> after <0310> my eyes <05869>, or if anything <03971> has defiled <01692> my hands <03709>, 31:8 then let me sow <02232> and let another <0312> eat <0398>, and let my crops <06631> be uprooted <08327>. 31:9 If <0518> my heart <03820> has been enticed <06601> by <05921> a woman <0802>, and I have lain in wait <0693> at <05921> my neighbor’s <07453> door <06607>, 31:10 then let my wife <0802> turn the millstone <02912> for another <0312> man, and may other <0312> men have sexual relations <03766> with <05921> her. 31:11 For <03588> I would have committed a shameful act <02154>, an iniquity <05771> to be judged <06414>. 31:12 For <03588> it is a fire <0784> that <01931> devours <0398> even <05704> to Destruction <011>, and it would uproot <08327> all <03605> my harvest <08393>. 31:13 “If <0518> I have disregarded <03988> the right <04941> of my male servants <05650> or my female servants <0519> when they disputed <07378> with me <05978>, 31:14 then what <04100> will I do <06213> when <03588> God <0410> confronts <06965> me in judgment; when <03588> he intervenes <06485>, how <04100> will I respond <07725> to him? 31:15 Did not <03808> the one who made <06213> me in the womb <0990> make <06213> them? Did not the same one <0259> form <03559> us in the womb <07358>? 31:16 If <0518> I have refused to give <04513> the poor <01800> what they desired <02656>, or caused the eyes <05869> of the widow <0490> to fail <03615>, 31:17 If I ate <0398> my morsel <06595> of bread myself <0905>, and did not <03808> share <0398> any of it with <04480> orphans <03490>– 31:18 but <03588> from my youth <05271> I raised <01431> the orphan like a father <01>, and from my mother’s <0517> womb <0990> I guided <05148> the widow! 31:19 If <0518> I have seen <07200> anyone about to perish <06> for lack <01097> of clothing <03830>, or a poor <034> man without <0369> a coat <03682>, 31:20 whose heart <02504> did not <03808> bless <01288> me as he warmed <02552> himself with the fleece <01488> of my sheep <03532>,

• Job 31:1-34 -- Job Vindicates Himself

• WISDOM

  [isbe] WISDOM - wiz'-dum: 1. Linguistic 2. History 3. Religious Basis 4. Ideals 5. Teaching of Christ 6. Remainder of the New Testament (1) James (2) Paul 7. Hypostasis LITERATURE 1. Linguistic: In the Revised Version (British and ...
  

• PSALMS, BOOK OF

  [isbe] PSALMS, BOOK OF - samz, (tehillim, "praises," cepher tehillim, "book of praises"; Psalmoi, Psalterion): I. INTRODUCTORY TOPICS 1. Title 2. Place in the Canon 3. Number of Psalms 4. Titles in the Hebrew Text II. AUTHORSHIP AN...
  

• Job

  [nave] JOB 1. A man who dwelt in Uz, Job 1:1. Righteousness of, Job 1:1, 5, 8; 2:3; Ezek. 14:14, 20. Riches of, Job 1:3. Trial of, by affliction of Satan, Job 1:13-19; 2:7-10. Fortitude of, Job 1:20-22; 2:10; Jas. 5:11. Visite...
  

• JOB, BOOK OF

  [isbe] JOB, BOOK OF - || I. INTRODUCTORY 1. Place in the Canon 2. Rank and Readers II. THE LITERARY FRAMEWORK 1. Setting of Time, Place and Scene 2. Characters and Personality 3. Form and Style III. THE COURSE OF THE STORY A) To Jo...
  

• Integrity

  [isbe] INTEGRITY - in-teg'-ri-ti (tom, tummah): The translation of tom, "simplicity," "soundness," "completeness," rendered also "upright," "perfection." Its original sense appears in the phrase letom (1 Ki 22:34; 2 Ch 18:33), "A c...
  [nave] INTEGRITY. Gen. 18:19; Ex. 18:21; Deut. 16:19, 20; Job 10:7; Job 13:15, 18; Job 16:17; Job 27:4-6; Job 29:14; Job 31:1-40; Psa. 7:3-5, 8; Psa. 15:1-5; Psa. 17:3; Psa. 18:20 2 Sam. 22:21. Psa. 24:3-5; Psa. 26:1-3; Psa. 69:4;...
  

• Fleece

  [ebd] the wool of a sheep, whether shorn off or still attached to the skin (Deut. 18:4; Job 31:20). The miracle of Gideon's fleece (Judg. 6:37-40) consisted in the dew having fallen at one time on the fleece without any on the flo...
  

• FASHION

  [isbe] FASHION - fash'-un (mishpaT; schema, the make, pattern, shape, manner or appearance of a thing (from Latin faction-em, "a making," through Old French fatson, fachon)): In the Old Testament the noun "fashion" represents 3 Heb...
  

• Dress

  [ebd] (1.) Materials used. The earliest and simplest an apron of fig-leaves sewed together (Gen. 3:7); then skins of animals (3:21). Elijah's dress was probably the skin of a sheep (2 Kings 1:8). The Hebrews were early acquainted ...
  

• DEATH

  [isbe] DEATH - (maweth; thanatos): PHYSIOLOGICAL AND FIGURATIVE VIEW The word "Death" is used in the sense of (1) the process of dying (Gen 21:16); (2) the period of decease (Gen 27:7); (3) as a possible synonym for poison (2 Ki 4:...
  

• CRITICISM

  [isbe] CRITICISM - (The Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis) I. PRELIMINARY 1. Thesis 2. Historical Perspective 3. Inspiration and Criticism II. THE LEGISLATION 1. Groups 2. Covenant Code 3. The Sanctuary 4. Kinds of Sacrifice 5. Sacrifice ...
  

• CRIME; CRIMES

  [isbe] CRIME; CRIMES - krim, krimz: This. term is used in English as the equivalent of the Hebrew mishpaT, "judgment," "verdict" (Ezek 7:23); zimmah, "a heinous crime" (Job 31:11); 'asham = "a fault," "sin" (Gen 26:10, English Vers...
  

• COVER; COVERING

  [isbe] COVER; COVERING - kuv'-er, kuv'-er-ing: The translation of several Hebrew words. The covering of the ark (mikhceh, Gen 8:13) was possibly the lid of a hatchway (compare Mitchell, World before Abraham, 215). To the sons of Ko...
  

• COVENANT, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

  [isbe] COVENANT, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT - kuv'-e-nant (berith): I. GENERAL MEANING II. AMONG MEN 1. Early Idea 2. Principal Elements 3. Different Varieties 4. Phraseology Used III. BETWEEN GOD AND MEN 1. Essential Idea 2. Covenants R...
  

• CHARM

  [isbe] CHARM - charm: Definition.--The word charm is derived from the Latin carmen, "a song," and denotes strictly what is sung; then it comes to mean a magical formula chanted or recited with a view to certain desired results. Cha...
  

• Balance

  [ebd] occurs in Lev. 19:36 and Isa. 46:6, as the rendering of the Hebrew kanch', which properly means "a reed" or "a cane," then a rod or beam of a balance. This same word is translated "measuring reed" in Ezek. 40:3,5; 42:16-18. ...
  

• BLOT

  [ebd] a stain or reproach (Job 31:7; Prov. 9:7). To blot out sin is to forgive it (Ps. 51:1, 9; Isa. 44:22; Acts 3:19). Christ's blotting out the handwriting of ordinances was his fulfilling the law in our behalf (Col. 2:14).
  [isbe] BLOT - blot (mum, contracted from me'um, "spot"): Occurs in the sense of scorn (Prov 9:7). In Job 31:7 (the King James Version) it is used figuratively of a moral defect; the Revised Version (British and American) has "spot....
  

• ASMODAEUS

  [isbe] ASMODAEUS - az-mo-de'-us ('ashmedhai; Asmodaios): An evil spirit first mentioned in Tobit 3:8. Older etymologists derived the name from the Hebrew verb shamadh, "destroy"; but it is now generally held to be associated with Z...
  

• APOLLYON

  [isbe] APOLLYON - a-pol'-i-on (Apolluon; 'abhaddon, "destroyer"): Present participle of the verb apolluo, "to destroy." I. Definition. A proper name, original with the author of the Apocalypse and used by him once (Rev 9:11) as a t...
  

• ABSTINENCE

  [isbe] ABSTINENCE - abs'-ti-nens: Abstinence as a form of asceticism reaches back into remote antiquity, and is found among most ancient peoples. It may be defined as a self-discipline which consists in the habitual renunciation, i...
  

• ABADDON

  [ebd] destruction, the Hebrew name (equivalent to the Greek Apollyon, i.e., destroyer) of "the angel of the bottomless pit" (Rev. 9:11). It is rendered "destruction" in Job 28:22; 31:12; 26:6; Prov. 15:11; 27:20. In the last three...
  [isbe] ABADDON - a-bad'-on ('abhaddon, "ruin," "perdition," "destruction"): Though "destruction" is commonly used in translating 'abhaddon, the stem idea is intransitive rather than passive--the idea of perishing, going to ruin, be...
  

• What Is My Sin?

  

• Romans 8:18 and 1Pet chapter 4 seem to imply Christians should rejoice in our suffering because of the sympathy towards the suffering of Jesus,
  The suffering I have experienced does not compare to what you have described. The problem of pain is one that requires much more than a glib response. Indeed, the answer is probably the content of a book -- one...
• Does Job 31:7 ("Or if any spot has stuck to my hands") speak of masturbation?
  I spoke with a man who has recently written a commentary on Job, and he indicated that he did not recall coming across the interpretation you have suggested. Your interpretation would be very specific, and thus a bit limit...
• Why and How Should We Lore Our Fellow Man?
  God and Christ commanded us to love man. The Saviour gave us an example in doing it (I John 4:7,21; John 13:34; John 15:12; I John 3:23). It is taught by God and is a fruit of the Spirit (I Thes. 4:9; Gal. 5:22; Col. 1:8). Wi...

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