Job 31:33-34

Job's Final Appeal

33 if I k have concealed my transgressions l as others do 1
by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
34 because I stood in great fear of m the multitude,
and the contempt of families terrified me,
so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors -

  1. Cross References
    Proverbs 28:13
    Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
  2. Cross References
    Genesis 3:8
    And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
    Genesis 3:12
    The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.
  3. Cross References
    Exodus 23:2
    You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice.
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