Job 31:29
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
Job 31:29 in other translations
| BSB | If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him— |
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| WEB | “If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him |
| ASV | If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him |
| YLT | If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him, |
| DARBY | If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him; |
| BBE | If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him; |
| Webster | If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or have lifted up myself when evil found him: |
What does Job 31:29 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 31:24-32
Job protests, 1. That he never set his heart upon the wealth of this world. How few prosperous professors can appeal to the Lord, that they have not rejoiced because their gains were great! Through the determination to be rich, numbers ruin their souls, or pierce themselves with many sorrows. 2. He never was guilty of idolatry. The source of idolatry is in the heart, and it corrupts men, and provokes God to send…
Job 31:29 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 31:29
- Proverbs 24:17-18
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
- Proverbs 17:5
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
- Psalms 35:13-14
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
- Obadiah 1:12
But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
- Psalms 35:25-26
Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
- 2 Samuel 1:12
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
- 2 Samuel 4:10-11
When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings: How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
- 2 Samuel 16:5-8
And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came. And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial: The Lord hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the Lord hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.
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Context
- Job 31:28
This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
- Job 31:29
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
- Job 31:30
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
Job 31:29 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Si me alegré en el quebrantamiento del que me aborrecía, y me regocijé cuando le halló el mal; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Si je me suis réjoui dans la calamité de celui qui me haïssait, si j’ai été ému de joie lorsque le malheur l’a trouvé; – |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn ich mich freute über das Unglück meines Hassers und aufjauchzte, als Böses ihn traf- |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Si gavisus sum ad ruinam ejus qui me oderat, et exsultavi quod invenisset eum malum: |