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Text -- Job 31:1-10 (NET)
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Context
Job Vindicates Himself
31:1 “I made a covenant with my eyes ; how then could I entertain thoughts against a virgin ?
31:2 What then would be one’s lot from God above , one’s heritage from the Almighty on high ?
31:3 Is it not misfortune for the unjust , and disaster for those who work iniquity ?
31:4 Does he not see my ways and count all my steps ?
31:5 If I have walked in falsehood , and if my foot has hastened to deceit –
31:6 let him weigh me with honest scales ; then God will discover my integrity .
31:7 If my footsteps have strayed from the way , if my heart has gone after my eyes , or if anything has defiled my hands ,
31:8 then let me sow and let another eat , and let my crops be uprooted .
31:9 If my heart has been enticed by a woman , and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door ,
31:10 then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men have sexual relations with her.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Integrity |
CHARM |
Job |
JOB, BOOK OF |
Temptation |
Adultery |
Fear of God |
Lies and Deceits |
Lust |
BLOT |
God |
Heart |
Wicked |
Vows |
Deceit |
WORKER; WORKFELLOW; WORKMAN |
FOOT |
COVENANT, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
ABSTINENCE |
HOW |
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NET Notes: Job 31:1 This half-verse is the effect of the covenant. The interrogative מָה (mah) may have the force of the negative, and so be translated ...
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NET Notes: Job 31:2 Heb “lot of Shaddai,” which must mean “the lot from Shaddai,” a genitive of source.
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NET Notes: Job 31:5 The verbs “walk” and “hasten” (referring in the verse to the foot) are used metaphorically for the manner of life Job lived.
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NET Notes: Job 31:6 The verb is וְיֵדַע (vÿyeda’, “and [then] he [God] will know”). The verb could also b...
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NET Notes: Job 31:7 The word מֻאוּם (mu’um) could be taken in one of two ways. One reading is to represent מוּ...
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NET Notes: Job 31:8 The word means “what sprouts up” (from יָצָא [yatsa’] with the sense of “sprout forth”). I...
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NET Notes: Job 31:9 Gordis notes that the word פֶּתַח (petakh, “door”) has sexual connotations in rabbinic literature, bas...
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