Text -- Job 31:30 (NET)

31:30 I have not even permitted my mouth to sin by asking for his life through a curse–

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 31:30

¹ tn This verse would then be a parenthesis in which he stops to claim his innocence.

² tn Heb “I have not given my palate.”

³ tn The infinitive construct with the ל (lamed) preposition (“by asking”) serves in an epexegetical capacity here, explaining the verb of the first colon (“permitted…to sin”). To seek a curse on anyone would be a sin.