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Selected Verse: Job 31:4 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Job 31:4 |
King James |
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Doth not he see? &c.--Knowing this, I could only have expected "destruction" (Job 31:3), had I committed this sin (Pro 5:21). |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Doth he not see my ways? - This either means that God was a witness of all that he did - his thoughts, words, and deeds, and would punish him if he had given indulgence to improper feelings and thoughts; or that since God saw all his thoughts, he could boldly appeal to him as a witness of his innocence in this matter, and in proof that his life and heart were pure. Rosenmuller adopts the latter interpretation; Herder seems to incline to the former. Umbreit renders it, "God himself must be a witness that I speak the truth." It is not easy to determine which is the true meaning. Either of them will accord well with the scope of the passage. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Doth not he see my ways - Can I suppose that I could screen myself from the eye of God while guilty of such iniquities? |
21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?