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Job 31:33
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Have I covered my transgressions as others doby hiding my iniquity in my heart
If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding my iniquity in my heart,
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
if I have concealed my transgressions as others do by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
I have not hidden my sin as others do, secretly keeping my guilt to myself.
if I have covered my transgressions as men do, by hiding iniquity in my heart,
"Have I concealed my transgressions like Adam or like other men, By hiding my wickedness in my bosom,
"Have I covered my wrongdoings like a man, By hiding my guilt in my shirt pocket,
If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding my iniquity in my heart,
If I haue hid my sinne, as Adam, concealing mine iniquitie in my bosome,
If I have covered my transgressions like Adam,By hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,
"If I concealed my sins, as most people do, by hiding my wrongdoing in my heart,
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,
I have not tried to hide my sins as some people do. I have never hidden my guilt.
If I have covered up my sins like some men, or if I have hid my guilt in secret places;
Others try to hide their sins, but I have never concealed mine.
Have I concealed my transgressions as other human beings to hide my iniquity in my bosom
if I covered my transgressions like Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
Haue I euer done eny wicked dede where thorow I shamed my self before men: Or eny abhominacion, yt I was fayne to hyde it?
If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,
If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,
If after the manner of men I covered my transgressions, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom--
If I couered my transgressions, as Adam: by hiding mine iniquitie in my bosome:
Haue I kept secrete my sinne, and hyd myne iniquitie, as Adam dyd?
or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin;
If like Adam I covered my transgressions, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom;
if Y as man hidde my synne, and helide my wickidnesse in my bosum;
If like man I have covered my transgressions, By hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:
If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, By hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
"Have I tried to hide my sins like other people do, concealing my guilt in my heart?
Have I hidden my sins like Adam? Have I hidden my wrong-doing in my heart,
if I have concealed my transgressions as others do, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
If I covered, like Adam, my transgressions, by hiding in my bosom mine iniquity,
If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.
if I have concealed my transgressions from men, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity,
"Have I covered my transgressions like Adam, By hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
covered: Genesis 3:7, Genesis 3:8, Genesis 3:12, Joshua 7:11, Proverbs 28:13, Hosea 6:7, Acts 5:8, 1 John 1:8-10
as Adam: or, after the manner of men, Hosea 6:7
Reciprocal: Genesis 2:15 - the man 1 Samuel 15:15 - for 2 Kings 20:15 - All the things Job 7:20 - I have sinned Psalms 17:4 - works Psalms 32:5 - have Psalms 38:18 - For Isaiah 39:4 - All that
Cross-References
Rebekah ran straight home and told her family everything.
Isaac took Rebekah into the tent where his mother had lived before she died, and Rebekah became his wife. He loved her and was comforted over the loss of his mother.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
If I covered my transgressions as Adam,.... Job could not be understood, by this account he had given of the holiness of his life, that he thought himself quite free from sin; he had owned himself to be a sinner in several places before, and disclaimed perfection; and here he acknowledges he was guilty of transgressing the law of God, and that in many instances; for he speaks of his "transgressions" in the plural number; but then he did not seek to cover them from the of God or men, but frankly and ingenuously confessed them to both; he did not cover them, palliate, excuse, and extenuate them, as Adam did his, by laying the blame to his wife; and as she by charging it on the serpent; and those excuses they made are the inventions they found out, Ecclesiastes 7:29; or the meaning is, Job did not do "as men" k in common do; who, when they have sinned, either through fear or shame, endeavour to conceal it, and keep it out of the sight of others, unless they are very hardened and audacious sinners, such as the men of Sodom were, see Hosea 6:7;
by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom; meaning perhaps some particular iniquity which his nature was most inclined to; this he did not attempt to hide in secret, as what is put into the bosom is; or that he did not spare it and cherish it, and, from an affection to it, keep it as persons and things beloved are, laid in the bosom; and so Mr. Broughton reads the words, "hiding my sin of a self-love"; either having a self-love to it, or hiding it of self-love, that is, from a principle of self-love, to preserve his honour, credit, and reputation among men.
k כאדם "ut homo", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Beza, Bolducius, Mercerus, Drusius, Schmidt; "more hominum", Junius Tremellius, Piscator so Aben Ezra.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
If I covered my transgressions as Adam - That is, if I have attempted to hide or conceal them; if, conscious of guilt, I have endeavored to cloak my sins, and to appear righteous. There has been great variety of opinion about the meaning of this expression. The margin reads it, “After the manner of men.” Luther, renders it, “Have I covered my wickedness as a man” - Habe ich meine Schalkheit wie ein Menseh gedecht. Coverdale, “Have I ever done any wicked deed where through I shamed myself before men.” Herder, “Did I hide my faults like a mean man.” Schultens, “If I have covered my sin as Adam.” The Vulgate, Quasi homo - “as a man.” The Septuagint, “If when I sinned unwillingly (ᾶκουσίως akousiōs - inadvertently, undesignedly) I concealed my sin.” Noyes, “After the manner of men.” Umbreit, Nach Menschenart - “After the manner of men.” Rosenmuller, As Adam. The Chaldee, כאדם, meaning, as Rosenmuller remarks, as Adam; and the Syriac, As men.
The meaning may either be, as people are accustomed to do when they commit a crime - referring to the common practice of the guilty to attempt to cloak their offences, or to the attempt of Adam to hide his sin from his Maker after the fall; Genesis 3:7-8. It is not possible to decide with certainty which is the correct interpretation, for either will accord with the Hebrew. But in favor of the supposition that it refers to the effort of Adam to conceal his sin, we may remark, (1.) That there can be little or no doubt that that transaction was known to Job by tradition. (2.) it furnished him a pertinent and striking illustration of the point before him. (3.) the illustration is, by supposing that it refers to him, much more striking than on the other supposition. It is true that people often attempt to conceal their guilt, and that it may be set down as a fact very general in its character; but still it is not so universal that there are no exceptions. But here was a specific and well-known case, and one which, as it was the first, so it was the most sad and melancholy instance that had ever occurred of an attempt to conceal guilt. It was not an attempt, to hide it from man - for there was then no other man to witness it; but an attempt to hide it from God. From such an attempt Job says he was free.
By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom - By attempting to conceal it so that others would not know it. Adam attempted to conceal his fault even from God; and it is common with people, when they have done wrong, to endeavor to hide it from others.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 31:33. If I covered my transgressions as Adam — Here is a most evident allusion to the fall. Adam transgressed the commandment of his Maker, and he endeavoured to conceal it; first, by hiding himself among the trees of the garden: "I heard thy voice, and went and HID myself;" secondly, by laying the blame on his wife: "The woman gave me, and I did eat;" and thirdly, by charging the whole directly on God himself: "The woman which THOU GAVEST ME to be with me, SHE gave me of the tree, and I did eat." And it is very likely that Job refers immediately to the Mosaic account in the Book of Genesis. The spirit of this saying is this: When I have departed at any time from the path of rectitude, I have been ready to acknowledge my error, and have not sought excuses or palliatives for my sin.
