🌪️WEB · Job 31:33

What does Job 31:33 mean?

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

— Job 31:33 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

30

(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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because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—

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oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!

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Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.

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