Job 31:28

World English Bible (2000)

this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.

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  • Job 31:11 : 11 For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:
  • Deut 17:2-7 : 2 If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant, 3 and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the sky, which I have not commanded; 4 and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently; and behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel, 5 then you shall bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones. 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who 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 on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
  • Josh 24:27 : 27 Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God."
  • Judg 11:27 : 27 I therefore have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. Yahweh, the Judge, be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon."
  • Job 9:15 : 15 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
  • Job 23:7 : 7 There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.
  • Deut 17:9 : 9 and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.
  • Josh 24:23 : 23 "Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel."
  • Gen 18:25 : 25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
  • Ps 50:6 : 6 The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
  • Prov 30:9 : 9 lest I be full, deny you, and say, 'Who is Yahweh?' or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
  • Titus 1:16 : 16 They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
  • Heb 12:23 : 23 to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
  • 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
  • 1 John 2:23 : 23 Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn't have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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    27and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

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    11For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

  • Job 34:31-32
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  • Prov 30:9
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    9lest I be full, deny you, and say, 'Who is Yahweh?' or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

  • Ps 7:3-4
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    3Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

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  • Job 23:7
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  • Job 27:5-6
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    5Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

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    5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;

  • Job 9:15
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    15Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

  • Job 31:5-7
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  • Ps 18:21-23
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    21For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

    22For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his statutes from me.

    23I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

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

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

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

  • Deut 32:27
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    27were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, 'Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.'"

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    15If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

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    10Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

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    28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

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    33if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

  • Job 40:8
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    8Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

  • 2 Sam 22:22
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    1Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

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    24Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don't let them gloat 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.

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

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    12"Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

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    13Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me."

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    6May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

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