Job 31
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 31, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
Job 31:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For what portion of God {is there} from above? and {what} inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
Job 31:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Is} not destruction to the wicked? and a strange {punishment} to the workers of iniquity?
Job 31:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
Job 31:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Job 31:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. {Let...: Heb. Let him weigh me in balances of justice}
Job 31:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
Job 31:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Then} let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
Job 31:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or {if} I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
Job 31:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Then} let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
Job 31:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For this {is} an heinous crime; yea, it {is} an iniquity {to be punished by} the judges.
Job 31:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For it {is} a fire {that} consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
Job 31:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
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What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
Job 31:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? {did not one...: or, did he not fashion us in one womb?}
Job 31:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If I have withheld the poor from {their} desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Job 31:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
Job 31:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as {with} a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) {her: that is, the widow}
Job 31:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
Job 31:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If his loins have not blessed me, and {if} he were {not} warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Job 31:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
Job 31:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Then} let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. {bone: or, chanelbone}
Job 31:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For destruction {from} God {was} a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
Job 31:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, {Thou art} my confidence;
Job 31:24 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If I rejoiced because my wealth {was} great, and because mine hand had gotten much; {gotten...: Heb. found much}
Job 31:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking {in} brightness; {sun: Heb. light} {in...: Heb. bright}
Job 31:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: {my mouth...: Heb. my hand hath kissed my mouth}
Job 31:27 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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This also {were} an iniquity {to be punished by} the judge: for I should have denied the God {that is} above.
Job 31:28 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
Job 31:29 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. {mouth: Heb. palate}
Job 31:30 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
Job 31:31 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The stranger did not lodge in the street: {but} I opened my doors to the traveller. {traveller: or, way}
Job 31:32 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: {as Adam: or, after the manner of men}
Job 31:33 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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?
Job 31:34 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire {is, that} the Almighty would answer me, and {that} mine adversary had written a book. {my...: or, my sign is that the Almighty will}
Job 31:35 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, {and} bind it {as} a crown to me.
Job 31:36 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
Job 31:37 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; {complain: Heb. weep}
Job 31:38 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: {fruits: Heb. strength} {the owners...: Heb. the soul of the owners thereof to expire, or, breathe out}
Job 31:39 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. {cockle: or, noisome weeds}
Job 31:40 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.