Add parallel Print Page Options

31 Had not the men of my tent exclaimed,
    “Who has not been filled with his meat!”[a]
32 No stranger lodged in the street,
    for I opened my door to wayfarers—
33 [b]Had I, all too human, hidden my sins
    and buried my guilt in my bosom

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 31:31 The members of his extended family will testify to his hospitality.
  2. 31:33–34 Job’s present protest is made, not in spite of hidden sins which he had been unwilling to disclose, but out of genuine innocence. All too human: can also be translated “like Adam.”

31 if those of my household have never said,
    ‘Who has not been filled with Job’s meat?’(A)
32 but no stranger had to spend the night in the street,
    for my door was always open to the traveler(B)
33 if I have concealed(C) my sin as people do,[a]
    by hiding(D) my guilt in my heart

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Job 31:33 Or as Adam did