Job 31:37

American Standard Version (1901)

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near unto him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 32:28 : 28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
  • Job 1:3 : 3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
  • Job 9:3 : 3 If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.
  • Job 13:15 : 15 Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.
  • Job 14:16 : 16 But now thou numberest my steps: Dost thou not watch over my sin?
  • Job 29:25 : 25 I chose out their way, and sat [as] chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.
  • Job 42:3-6 : 3 Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. 5 I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now mine eye seeth thee: 6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], And repent in dust and ashes.
  • Ps 19:12 : 12 Who can discern [his] errors? Clear thou me from hidden [faults] .
  • Eph 3:12 : 12 in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.
  • Heb 4:15-16 : 15 For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin. 16 Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help [us] in time of need.
  • 1 John 3:19-21 : 19 Hereby shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him: 20 because if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 31:33-36
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    33If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

    34Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door--

    35Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And [that I had] the indictment which mine adversary hath written!

    36Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown:

  • 38If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;

  • Job 31:4-7
    4 verses
    77%

    4Doth not he see my ways, And number all my steps?

    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:

  • Job 23:3-7
    5 verses
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    3Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

    4I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.

    5I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would say unto me.

    6Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me.

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

  • 11My foot hath held fast to his steps; His way have I kept, and turned not aside.

  • 35Then would I speak, and not fear him; For I am not so in myself.

  • Job 33:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10Behold, he findeth occasions against me, He counteth me for his enemy:

    11He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths.

  • 16But now thou numberest my steps: Dost thou not watch over my sin?

  • 3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.

  • 2But as for me, my feet were almost gone; My steps had well nigh slipped.

  • Job 29:6-7
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    71%

    6When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!

    7When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,

  • 11But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: Redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

  • Ps 38:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16For I said, Lest they rejoice over me: When my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

    17For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.

  • 37Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; And my feet have not slipped.

  • 5My steps have held fast to thy paths, My feet have not slipped.

  • 14How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words [to reason] with him?

  • 17I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare:

  • 3When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

  • 16As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was before thy face.

  • Job 31:26-29
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    26If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,

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

    28This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above.

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

  • 28But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.

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

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

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

  • 3I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

  • 1Howbeit, Job, I pray thee, hear my speech, And hearken to all my words.

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

  • 32That which I see not teach thou me: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?

  • 22For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

  • 36Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, And my feet have not slipped.

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

  • 4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

  • 22Then call thou, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and answer thou me.

  • 11Let not the foot of pride come against me, And let not the hand of the wicked drive me away.