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Job 31:30
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I have not allowed my mouth to sinby asking for his life with a curse.
(Yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
(I have not let my mouth sin by asking for his life with a curse),
I have not even permitted my mouth to sin by asking for his life through a curse—
"No, I have not allowed my mouth to sin By cursing my enemy and asking for his life.
"No, I have not allowed my mouth to sin By asking for his life in a curse.
(Yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);
Neither haue I suffred my mouth to sinne, by wishing a curse vnto his soule.
But I have not given over my mouth to sinBy asking for his life in a curse—
I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse-
Neither have I sinned by asking God to send down on them the curse of death.
No, I did not allow my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse.
(Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)
I have never let my mouth sin by cursing my enemies and wishing for them to die.
(But I have neither suffered my mouth to sin, nor has my soul wished for any of these things;
I never sinned by praying for their death.
no, I have not allowed my mouth to sin, to ask his life with a curse.
also I have not given my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;
I neuer suffred my mouth to do soch a sinne, as to wysh him euell.
(Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);
(For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)
Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse.
(Neither haue I suffered my mouth to sinne by wishing a curse to his soule.)
I neuer suffred my mouth to sinne, by wishing a curse to his soule.
let then mine ear hear my curse, and let me be a byword among my people in my affliction.
(Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)
for Y yaf not my throte to do synne, that Y schulde asaile and curse his soule;
(Yes, I haven't allowed my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
(Indeed I have not allowed my mouth to sin By asking for a curse on his soul);
No, I have never sinned by cursing anyone or by asking for revenge.
No, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life to be cursed.
I have not let my mouth sin by asking for their lives with a curse—
Neither did I suffer my palate to sin, by asking, with a curse, for his life:
For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul.
(I have not let my mouth sin by asking for his life with a curse);
Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life.
"No, I have not allowed my mouth to sin By asking for his life in a curse.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
have: Exodus 23:4, Exodus 23:5, Matthew 5:43, Matthew 5:44, Romans 12:14, 1 Peter 2:22, 1 Peter 2:23, 1 Peter 3:9
mouth: Heb. palate, Ecclesiastes 5:2, Ecclesiastes 5:6, Matthew 5:22, Matthew 12:36, James 3:6, James 3:9, James 3:10
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 24:6 - the Lord forbid 2 Samuel 16:9 - let me go Job 33:2 - mouth Job 34:3 - mouth
Cross-References
One day Jacob heard Laban's sons talking. They said, "Jacob has taken everything our father owned, and in this way he has become rich."
Then Jacob noticed that Laban was not as friendly as he had been before.
You both know that I have worked as hard as I could for your father,
While Laban was gone to cut the wool from his sheep, Rachel stole the idols that belonged to him.
"That night I will go through the land of Egypt and kill all the firstborn animals and people in the land of Egypt. I will also punish all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord .
The Egyptians were burying their firstborn sons, whom the Lord had killed; the Lord showed that the gods of Egypt were false.
But Joash said to the angry crowd around him, "Are you going to take Baal's side? Are you going to defend him? Anyone who takes Baal's side will be killed by morning! If Baal is a god, let him fight for himself. It's his altar that has been pulled down."
Micah answered, "You took my gods that I made and my priest. What do I have left? How can you ask me, ‘What's the matter?'"
The Philistines left their idols behind at Baal Perazim, so David and his men carried them away.
They have thrown the gods of these nations into the fire, but they were only wood and rock statues that people made. So the kings have destroyed them.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin,.... Which, as it is the instrument of speech, is often the means of much sin; particularly of cursing men, and expressing much bitterness against enemies; but Job laid an embargo upon it, kept it as with a bridle, restrained it from uttering any evil, or wishing any to his worst adversaries; which is difficult to do, when provocations are given, as follows:
by wishing a curse to his soul; not to his soul as distinct from his body, being the superior excellency and immortal part; that it be everlastingly damned, as wicked men wish to their own souls, and the souls of others, but to his person, wishing some calamity might befall him, some disease seize upon him, or that God would take him away by death: Job would never suffer himself to wish anything of this kind unto his enemy.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Neither have I suffered my mouth - Margin, as in Hebrew, palate. The word is often used for the mouth in general, and especially as the organ of the voice from the use and importance of the palate in speaking. Proverbs 8:7. “For my palate (חכי chikiy) speaketh truth.” It is used as the organ of taste, Job 12:11; compare Job 6:30; Psalms 119:103.
By wishing a curse to his soul - It must have been an extraordinary degree of piety which would permit a man to say this with truth, that he had never harbored a wish of injury to an enemy. Few are the people, probably, even now, who could say this, and who are enabled to keep their minds free from every wish that calamities and woes may overtake those who are seeking their hurt. Yet this is the nature of true religion. It controls the heart, represses the angry and revengeful feelings, and creates in the soul an earnest desire for the happiness even of those who injure us.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 31:30. Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin — I have neither spoken evil of him, nor wished evil to him. How few of those called Christians can speak thus concerning their enemies; or those who have done them any mischief!
