Devine Scripture

Job 31:34

Job chapter 31 · verse 34 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door—

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door—

Context

v.33If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

v.34This passage

v.35Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me) Andthat I hadthe indictment which mine adversary hath written!

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 38:16

    So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As Jehovah liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.

  • Job 22:8

    But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; And the honorable man, he dwelt in it.

  • Exodus 23:2

    Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest justice:

  • Jeremiah 38:19

    And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.

  • Exodus 32:27

    And he said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Put ye every man his sword upon his thigh, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.

  • Nehemiah 13:28

    And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.