🌪️WEB · Job 31:23
What does Job 31:23 mean?
"For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing."
— Job 31:23 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,
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