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24 “Have I placed my faith in gold
    and regarded it as my security?
25 Have I rejoiced in my great wealth
    and the abundance of riches in my possession?
26 [a]Have I beheld the sun when it shone
    and the moon moving in its splendor

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:26 Job knows that to worship the sun or the moon is a sin (see Deut 4:19; 17:3; Ezek 8:16f), and he was careful not to do so. Blew them a kiss: a sign of respect that implied recognition of a divinity (the Latin word adorare [“adore”] came from ad os meaning “put the hand to the mouth”). Therefore, to blow a kiss to the stars meant to practice idolatry.

24 “If I have put my trust in gold(A)
    or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’(B)
25 if I have rejoiced over my great wealth,(C)
    the fortune my hands had gained,(D)
26 if I have regarded the sun(E) in its radiance
    or the moon(F) moving in splendor,

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