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31:24 “If <0518> I have put <07760> my confidence <03689> in gold <02091> or said <0559> to pure gold <03800>, ‘You are my security <04009>!’ 31:25 if <0518> I have rejoiced <08055> because <03588> of the extent <03524> of my wealth, or because of the great <07227> wealth <02428> my hand <03027> had gained <04672>, 31:26 if <0518> I looked <07200> at the sun <0216> when <03588> it was shining <01984>, and the moon <03394> advancing <01980> as a precious <03368> thing, 31:27 so that my heart <03820> was secretly <05643> enticed <06601>, and my hand <03027> threw <05401> them a kiss <05401> from my mouth <06310>, 31:28 then this <01931> also <01571> would be iniquity <05771> to be judged <06416>, for <03588> I would have been false <03584> to God <0410> above <04605>. 31:29 If <0518> I have rejoiced <08055> over the misfortune <06365> of my enemy <08130> or exulted <05782> because <03588> calamity <07451> found <04672> him– 31:30 I have not <03808> even permitted <05414> my mouth <02441> to sin <02398> by asking <07592> for his life <05315> through a curse <0423>– 31:31 if <0518> the members <04962> of my household <0168> have never <03808> said <0559>, ‘If only there were <05414> someone who <04310> has not <03808> been satisfied <07646> from Job’s meat <01320>!’– 31:32 But no <03808> stranger <01616> had to spend <03885> the night outside <02351>, for I opened <06605> my doors <01817> to the traveler <0734>– 31:33 if <0518> I have covered <03680> my transgressions <06588> as men <0121> do, by hiding <02934> iniquity <05771> in my heart <02243>, 31:34 because <03588> I was terrified <06206> of the great <07227> multitude <01995>, and the contempt <0937> of families <04940> terrified <02865> me, so that I remained silent <01826> and would not <03808> go <03318> outdoors <06607>– 31:35 “If <04310> only I had <05414> someone to hear <08085> me! Here <02005> is my signature <08420>– let the Almighty <07706> answer <06030> me! If only I had an indictment <05612> that my accuser <07379> <0376> had written <03789>. 31:36 Surely <0518> I would wear it proudly on <05921> my shoulder <07926>, I would bind <06029> it on me like a crown <05850>; 31:37 I would give <05046> him an accounting <04557> of my steps <06806>; like <03644> a prince <05057> I would approach <07126> him. 31:38 “If <0518> my land <0127> cried out <02199> against <05921> me and all its furrows <08525> wept <01058> together <03162>, 31:39 if <0518> I have eaten <0398> its produce <03581> without <01097> paying <03701>, or caused the death <05301> <05315> of its owners <01167>, 31:40 then let thorns <02336> sprout up <03318> in place <08478> of wheat <02406>, and in place <08478> of barley <08184>, weeds <0890>!” The words <01697> of Job <0347> are ended <08552>.

• Job 31:35-37 -- Job's Appeal
• Job 31:38-40 -- Job's Final Solemn Oath

• Temptation

  [nave] TEMPTATION. Gen. 3:1-13; Gen. 20:6; Ex. 34:12 vs. 13-16.; Deut. 7:25; Deut. 8:11-14, 17, 18; Deut. 13:3; 1 Chr. 21:1; 2 Chr. 32:30, 31; Psa. 119:165; Prov. 1:10-17; Prov. 2:10-12, 16; Prov. 4:14, 15; Prov. 5:6-21; Prov. 6:2...
  

• SUN-WORSHIP

  [isbe] SUN-WORSHIP - sun'-wur-ship: The splendor of the sun makes it a natural object of adoration, once the purer idea of the one true God (Rom 1:20,21) is parted with, and in most ancient nations the worship of the sun was an out...
  

• QUEEN OF HEAVEN

  [isbe] QUEEN OF HEAVEN - (melekheth ha-shamayim, although there is another reading, mele'kheth, "worship" or "goddess"): Occurs only in two passages: Jer 7:18; 44:17-19,25, where the prophet denounces the wrath of God upon the inha...
  

• 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

  [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;...
  

• Idolatry

  [isbe] IDOLATRY - i-dol'-a-tri (teraphim, "household idols," "idolatry"; eidololatreia): There is ever in the human mind a craving for visible forms to express religious conceptions, and this tendency does not disappear with the ac...
  [smith] strictly speaking denotes the worship of deity in a visible form, whether the images to which homage is paid are symbolical representations of the true God or of the false divinities which have been made the objects of worshi...
  [nave] IDOLATRY. Wicked Practices of Human sacrifices, Lev. 18:21; 20:2-5; Deut. 12:31; 18:10; 2 Kin. 3:26, 27; 16:3; 17:17, 18; 21:6; 23:10; 2 Chr. 28:3; 33:6; Psa. 106:37, 38; Isa. 57:5; Jer. 7:31; 19:4-7; 32:35; Ezek. 16:20, 2...
  

• Hand

  [ebd] Called by Galen "the instrument of instruments." It is the symbol of human action (Ps. 9:16; Job 9:30; Isa. 1:15; 1 Tim. 2:8). Washing the hands was a symbol of innocence (Ps. 26:6; 73:13; Matt. 27:24), also of sanctificatio...
  

• CRY, CRYING

  [isbe] CRY, CRYING - kri'-ing (zaaq, tsa`aq (and forms), qara', shawa`, rinnah; boao, krazo, phoneo): Various words are translated "cry," "crying," etc., the chief of which are those above given; za'aq and tsa`aq denote especially ...
  

• CROWN

  [isbe] CROWN - kroun: The word crown in the Old Testament is a translation of five different Hebrew words, and in the New Testament of two Greek words. These express the several meanings, and must be examined to ascertain the same....
  

• CONFIDENCE

  [isbe] CONFIDENCE - kon'-fi-dens (baTach, and forms, kecel; parrhesia; peitho, pepoithesis, hupostasis): The chief Hebrew word translated "confidence" (baTach, and its forms) means, perhaps, radically, "to be open," showing thus wh...
  

• 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...
  

• Bramble

  [ebd] (1.) Hebrew atad, Judg. 9:14; rendered "thorn," Ps. 58:9. The LXX. and Vulgate render by rhamnus, a thorny shrub common in Palestine, resembling the hawthorn. (2.) Hebrew hoah, Isa. 34:13 (R.V. "thistles"); "thickets" in 1 S...
  

• BOSOM

  [isbe] BOSOM - booz'-um: In the ordinary signification of the anterior upper portion of the trunk of the body, choq or cheq, "inlet, "lap" (Ex 4:6,7; Nu 11:12; Dt 13:6; 28:54,56; Ruth 4:16; Ps 74:11; Isa 65:6,7; Lam 2:12). "A prese...
  

• ASTRONOMY, II

  [isbe] ASTRONOMY, II - II. The Constellations. The principal achievement of the science of astronomy in the centuries during which the books of the Old Testament were written was the arrangement and naming of the constellations, an...
  

• ASTRONOMY, I

  [isbe] ASTRONOMY, I - as-tron'-omi: I. THE HEAVENLY BODIES 1. The Ordinances of Heaven 2. The Sun (1) The Names for the Sun (2) The "City of the Sun" (3) The Greater Light-Giver (4) The Purpose of the Sun (5) The Sun as a Type 3. T...
  

• ADVERSARY

  [isbe] ADVERSARY - ad'-ver-sa-ri, ad'-ver-sa-ri: This word (in the singular or plural) is used in the Old Testament to render different Hebrew words. In thirty-two cases the word corresponds to the noun tsar, or the verb tsarar. Th...
  

• ADORATION

  [isbe] ADORATION - ad-o-ra'-shun: Though this word never occurs in English Versions, it represents aspects of worship which are very prominent in the Bible. I. Etymology. The word is derived from Latin adorare = (1) "to speak to," ...
  [smith] The acts and postures by which the Hebrews expressed adoration bear a great similarity to those still in use among Oriental nations. To rise up and suddenly prostrate the body was the most simple method; but, generally speaki...
  

• ADAM IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE APOCRYPHA

  [isbe] ADAM IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE APOCRYPHA - ad'-am, ('adham; Septuagint Adam). 1. Usage and Etymology: The Hebrew word occurs some 560 times in the Old Testament with the meaning "man," "mankind." Outside Gen 1 through 5 t...
  

• ADAM IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

  [isbe] ADAM IN THE OLD TESTAMENT - (Evolutionary Interpretation): (NOTE: It ought to be superfluous to say that the unfolding or development of the human personality here identified with evolution is something far higher, deeper, a...
  

• 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...

God’s Names

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