Job 31:30

(Neither haue I suffered my mouth to sinne by wishing a curse to his soule.)
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

"No, I have not allowed my mouth to sin By asking for his life in a curse.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

(Yea, I have not suffered by mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);
- American Standard Version (1901)

(For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)
- Basic English Bible

(Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)
- Darby Bible

Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
- Webster's Bible

(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);
- World English Bible

Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life.
- Youngs Literal Bible

Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible

Wesley's Notes for Job 31:30

31:28 The judge - The civil magistrate; who being advanced and protected by God, is obliged to maintain and vindicate his honour, and consequently to punish idolatry. Denied God - Not directly but by consequence, because this was to rob God of his prerogative, by giving to the creature, that worship which is peculiar to God.

31:29 Lift up - Heb. stirred up myself to rejoice and insult over his misery.

31:31 If - My domesticks and familiar friends. His flesh - This is farther confirmation of Job's charitable disposition to his enemy. Although all who were daily conversant with him, and were witnesses of his and their carriage, were so zealous in Job's quarrel, that they protested they could eat their flesh, and could not be satisfied without. Yet he restrained both them and himself from executing vengeance upon them.