Job 31:28

American Standard Version (1901)

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 31:11 : 11 For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:
  • Deut 17:2-7 : 2 If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that doeth that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, in transgressing his covenant, 3 and hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 4 and it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, then shalt thou inquire diligently; and, behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel, 5 then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, who hath done this evil thing, unto thy gates, even the man or the woman; and thou shalt stone them to death with stones. 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. 7 The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.
  • Josh 24:27 : 27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it hath heard all the words of Jehovah which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest ye deny your God.
  • Judg 11:27 : 27 I therefore have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: Jehovah, the Judge, be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
  • Job 9:15 : 15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.
  • Job 23:7 : 7 There the upright might reason with him; So should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
  • Deut 17:9 : 9 and thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days: and thou shalt inquire; and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment.
  • Josh 24:23 : 23 Now therefore put away, [said he], the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto Jehovah, the God of Israel.
  • Gen 18:25 : 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
  • Ps 50:6 : 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; For God is judge himself. {{Selah
  • Prov 30:9 : 9 Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who is Jehovah? Or lest I be poor, and steal, And use profanely the name of my God.
  • Titus 1:16 : 16 They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
  • Heb 12:23 : 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
  • 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
  • 1 John 2:23 : 23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that confesseth the Son hath the Father also.
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For there are certain men crept in privily, [even] they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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    29If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;

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  • Job 31:27
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    27And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand:

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    11For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

  • Job 34:31-32
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    31For hath any said unto God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more] :

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  • Prov 30:9
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    9Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who is Jehovah? Or lest I be poor, and steal, And use profanely the name of my God.

  • Ps 7:3-4
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    3O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; If there be iniquity in my hands;

    4If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary;)

  • Job 23:7
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    7There the upright might reason with him; So should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

  • Job 27:5-6
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    5Far be it from me that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.

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  • Job 19:5
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    5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

  • Job 9:15
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    15Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.

  • Job 31:5-7
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    5If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to deceit

    6(Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity);

    7If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands:

  • Ps 18:21-23
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    21For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

    22For all his ordinances were before me, And I put not away his statutes from me.

    23I was also perfect with him, And I kept myself from mine iniquity.

  • Job 34:5-6
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    5For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:

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  • Job 31:23
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    23For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.

  • 2 Sam 22:24
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    24I was also perfect toward him; And I kept myself from mine iniquity.

  • Deut 32:27
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    27Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, And Jehovah hath not done all this.

  • Ps 73:15
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    15If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.

  • Job 6:10
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    10And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 9:28
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    28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

  • Job 31:33
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    33If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

  • Job 40:8
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    8Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?

  • 2 Sam 22:22
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    22For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

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    13If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;

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    1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

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    1[[ A Psalm] of David]. Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in Jehovah without wavering.

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    24Judge me, O Jehovah my God, according to thy righteousness; And let them not rejoice over me.

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    32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment.

  • Job 31:21
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    21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:

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    2For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?

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    8But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause;

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    19Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.

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    22As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications When I cried unto thee.

  • Ps 55:12
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    12For it was not an enemy that reproached me; Then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; Then I would have hid myself from him:

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    35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

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    12Behold, I will answer thee, in this thou art not just; For God is greater than man.

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    14If I sin, then thou markest me, And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

  • 2 Sam 18:13
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    13Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hid from the king), then thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against [me] .

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    6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

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    2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me.