🌪️WEB · Job 31:34
What does Job 31:34 mean?
"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—"
— Job 31:34 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’
(the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
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—
oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!
Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.
I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him.
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