Job 31:33

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Prov 28:13 : 13 He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.
  • Hos 6:7 : 7 But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.
  • Gen 3:12 : 12 And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.
  • Josh 7:11 : 11 Israel has done wrong, sinning against the agreement which I made with them: they have even taken of the cursed thing; acting falsely like thieves they have put it among their goods.
  • Gen 3:7-8 : 7 And their eyes were open and they were conscious that they had no clothing and they made themselves coats of leaves stitched together. 8 And there came to them the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening wind: and the man and his wife went to a secret place among the trees of the garden, away from the eyes of the Lord God.
  • Acts 5:8 : 8 And Peter said to her, Give me an answer: was this amount of money the price of the land? And she said, Yes, it was.
  • 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us. 9 If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil. 10 If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.

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  • 34 For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door;

  • 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;

  • 17 My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.

  • 10 And he said, Hearing your voice in the garden I was full of fear, because I was without clothing: and I kept myself from your eyes.

  • Job 34:31-32
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    32 ...

  • 5 I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)

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

  • Job 10:13-15
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    13 But you kept these things in the secret of your heart; I am certain this was in your thoughts:

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

    15 That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.

  • 9 Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.

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

  • Job 31:27-30
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    27 A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;

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

    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;)

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    3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

  • 3 For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.

  • Job 7:20-21
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    20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

    21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

  • 9 If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

  • Job 9:27-28
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    27 If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright;

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

  • 13 He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.

  • Job 13:23-24
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    23 What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them.

    24 Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

  • 9 I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:

  • 32 The traveller did not take his night's rest in the street, and my doors were open to anyone on a journey;

  • 13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

  • 18 I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.

  • 3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

  • 3 Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

  • Job 13:19-20
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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.

    20 Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face:

  • 27 He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.

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

  • 1 <Of David. Maschil.> Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered.

  • 19 If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;

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

  • 4 And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself.

  • 4 As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God;

  • 14 If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

  • 17 I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on, turning his heart from me.

  • 11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

  • 15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.

  • 20 You will keep them safe in your house from the designs of man; in the secret of your tent will you keep them from angry tongues.

  • 17 In order that man may be turned from his evil works, and that pride may be taken away from him;

  • 13 But as for me, when they were ill I put on the clothing of sorrow: I went without food and was sad, and my prayer came back again to my heart.

  • 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;