Job 31:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 31:11 : 11 For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:
  • Deut 17:2-7 : 2 If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement, 3 By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders; 4 If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel; 5 Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead. 6 On the word of two or three witnesses, a man may be given the punishment of death; but he is not to be put to death on the word of one witness. 7 The hands of the witnesses will be the first to put him to death, and after them the hands of all the people. So you are to put away the evil from among you.
  • Josh 24:27 : 27 And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God.
  • Judg 11:27 : 27 So I have done no wrong against you, but you are doing wrong to me in fighting against me: may the Lord, who is Judge this day, be judge between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
  • Job 9:15 : 15 Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me.
  • Job 23:7 : 7 There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.
  • Deut 17:9 : 9 And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision:
  • Josh 24:23 : 23 Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.
  • Gen 18:25 : 25 Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?
  • Ps 50:6 : 6 And let the heavens make clear his righteousness; for God himself is the judge. (Selah.)
  • Prov 30:9 : 9 For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.
  • Titus 1:16 : 16 They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.
  • Heb 12:23 : 23 To the great meeting and church of the first of those who are named in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of good men made complete,
  • 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.
  • 1 John 2:23 : 23 He who has no belief in the Son has not the Father: he who makes clear his belief in the Son has the Father.
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 31:29-30
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    29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

    30 (For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)

  • Job 31:27
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    27 A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;

  • Job 31:11
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    11 For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:

  • Job 34:31-32
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    31 ...

    32 ...

  • Prov 30:9
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    9 For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.

  • Ps 7:3-4
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    3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

    4 If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

  • Job 23:7
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    7 There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

  • Job 27:5-6
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    5 Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness.

    6 I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.

  • Job 19:5
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    5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

  • Job 9:15
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    15 Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me.

  • Job 31:5-7
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    73%

    5 If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;

    6 (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)

    7 If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

  • Ps 18:21-23
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    72%

    21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

    22 For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.

    23 And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

  • Job 34:5-6
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    72%

    5 For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

    6 Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong.

  • Job 31:23
    72%

    23 For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.

  • 2 Sam 22:24
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    24 And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

  • Deut 32:27
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    27 But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.

  • Ps 73:15
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    15 If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

  • Job 6:10
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    10 So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 9:28
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    28 I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.

  • Job 31:33
    71%

    33 If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,

  • Job 40:8
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    8 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

  • 2 Sam 22:22
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    22 For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

  • Job 31:13-14
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    13 If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

    14 What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?

  • Ps 43:1
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    1 Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man.

  • Ps 26:1
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    1 <Of David.> O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

  • Ps 35:24
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    24 Be my judge, O Lord my God, in your righteousness; do not let them be glad over me.

  • Job 9:32
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    32 For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

  • Job 31:21
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    21 If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

  • Job 31:2
    70%

    2 For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?

  • Job 5:8
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    8 But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:

  • Job 13:19
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    19 Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

  • Ps 31:22
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    22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

  • Ps 55:12
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    12 For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

  • Lam 3:35
    70%

    35 In his turning away the right of a man before the face of the Most High.

  • Job 33:12
    70%

    12 Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man.

  • Job 10:14
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    14 That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:

  • 2 Sam 18:13
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    13 And if I had falsely put him to death (and nothing may be kept secret from the king), you would have had nothing to do with me.

  • Rom 3:6
    70%

    6 In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?

  • Job 32:22
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    22 For I am not able to give names of honour to any man; and if I did, my Maker would quickly take me away.

  • Job 10:2
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    2 I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.