🌪️WEB · Job 31:30

What does Job 31:30 mean?

"(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);"

— Job 31:30 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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

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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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“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

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(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

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if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’

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(the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

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

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