Job 31:2
For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
Job 31:2 in other translations
| BSB | For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high? |
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| WEB | For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high? |
| ASV | For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high? |
| YLT | And what is the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights? |
| DARBY | For what would have been my portion of God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high? |
| BBE | For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven? |
| Webster | For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? |
What does Job 31:2 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 31:1-4
Job 31:1-40. 1. Job proceeds to prove that he deserved a better lot. As in the twenty-ninth chapter, he showed his uprightness as an emir, or magistrate in public life, so in this chapter he vindicates his character in private life. 1-4. He asserts his guarding against being allured to sin by his senses. think--rather, "cast a (lustful) look." He not merely did not so, but put it out of the question by covenanting…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 31:1-8
Job did not speak the things here recorded by way of boasting, but in answer to the charge of hypocrisy. He understood the spiritual nature of God's commandments, as reaching to the thoughts and intents of the heart. It is best to let our actions speak for us; but in some cases we owe it to ourselves and to the cause of God, solemnly to protest our innocence of the crimes of which we are falsely accused. The lusts…
Job 31:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 31:2
- Job 20:29
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
- Job 27:13
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
- Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
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Context
- Job 31:1
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
- Job 31:2
For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
- Job 31:3
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
Job 31:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque ¿qué galardón me daría de arriba Dios, y qué heredad el Omnipotente de las alturas? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et quelle aurait été d’en haut ma portion de la part de ✝Dieu, et, des hauts lieux, mon héritage de la part du Tout-puissant? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn was wäre das Teil Gottes von oben gewesen, und das Erbe des Allmächtigen aus den Höhen? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quam enim partem haberet in me Deus desuper, et hæreditatem Omnipotens de excelsis? |