Job 31:37

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended.

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  • Gen 32:28 : 28 And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.
  • Job 1:3 : 3 And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.
  • Job 9:3 : 3 If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.
  • Job 13:15 : 15 Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;
  • Job 14:16 : 16 For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.
  • Job 29:25 : 25 I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army. ...
  • Job 42:3-6 : 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. 4 Give ear to me, and I will say what is in my mind; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers. 5 Word of you had come to my ears, but now my eye has seen you. 6 For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.
  • Ps 19:12 : 12 Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.
  • Eph 3:12 : 12 By whom we come near to God without fear through faith in him.
  • Heb 4:15-16 : 15 For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched by the feelings of our feeble flesh; but we have one who has been tested in all points as we ourselves are tested, but without sin. 16 Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.
  • 1 John 3:19-21 : 19 In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him, 20 When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things. 21 My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;

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    36 Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown;

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    38 If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

  • Job 31:4-7
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    4 Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

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

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    3 If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!

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    5 I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me.

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    16 For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.

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    5 I have kept my feet in your ways, my steps have not been turned away.

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    17 Take note and give ear to my words; and I will say what I have seen:

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    26 If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,

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    32 ...

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