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Job Chapter 31

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In this chapter the righteous man Job is praised for his integrity and the wicked are described as lacking wisdom. The contrast between the godly and the corrupt highlights that true wisdom is found in righteousness.

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(1) I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
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Genesis 6:2II Samuel 11:2II Samuel 11:3II Samuel 11:4Psalms 119:37Proverbs 4:25Proverbs 23:31Proverbs 23:32Proverbs 23:33Matthew 5:28Matthew 5:29I John 2:16

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I Samuel 1:8Leviticus 26:42II Kings 23:3Romans 12:3

(2) For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
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Job 20:29Job 27:13Hebrews 13:4

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Joshua 19:9Numbers 33:54Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:4Nehemiah 12:39John 3:31

(3) Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
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Job 21:30Psalms 55:23Psalms 73:18Proverbs 1:27Proverbs 10:29Proverbs 21:15Matthew 7:13Romans 9:22I Thessalonians 5:3II Thessalonians 1:9II Peter 2:1Isaiah 28:21

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Ezekiel 14:10Lamentations 4:6Lamentations 4:22Proverbs 10:29Proverbs 21:15

(4) Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
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Job 14:16Job 34:21Genesis 16:13II Chronicles 16:9Psalms 44:21Psalms 139:1Psalms 139:2Psalms 139:3Proverbs 5:21Proverbs 15:3Jeremiah 16:17Jeremiah 32:19

(5) If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
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Psalms 7:3Psalms 7:4Psalms 7:5Psalms 4:2Psalms 12:2Psalms 44:20Psalms 44:21Proverbs 12:11Jeremiah 2:5Ezekiel 13:8

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Ecclesiastes 1:2

(6) Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
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I Samuel 2:3Psalms 7:8Psalms 7:9Psalms 17:2Psalms 17:3Psalms 26:1Proverbs 16:11Isaiah 26:7Daniel 5:27Micah 6:11Joshua 22:22Psalms 1:6

(7) If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
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Psalms 44:20Psalms 44:21Numbers 15:39Ecclesiastes 11:9Ezekiel 6:9Ezekiel 14:3Ezekiel 14:7Matthew 5:29Psalms 101:3Isaiah 33:15

(8) Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
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Job 5:5Job 24:6Leviticus 26:16Deuteronomy 28:30Deuteronomy 28:31Deuteronomy 28:32Deuteronomy 28:33Deuteronomy 28:38Deuteronomy 28:51Judges 6:3Judges 6:4Judges 6:5

(9) If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
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Judges 16:5I Kings 11:4Nehemiah 13:26Proverbs 2:16Proverbs 2:17Proverbs 2:18Proverbs 2:19Proverbs 5:3Proverbs 5:4Proverbs 5:5Proverbs 5:6Proverbs 5:7

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Ezekiel 41:3Exodus 20:17Deuteronomy 5:21

(10) Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
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Exodus 11:5Isaiah 47:2Matthew 24:41II Samuel 12:11Jeremiah 8:10Hosea 4:13Hosea 4:14

(11) For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
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Genesis 20:9Genesis 26:10Genesis 39:9Exodus 20:14Proverbs 6:29Proverbs 6:30Proverbs 6:31Proverbs 6:32Proverbs 6:33Job 31:28Genesis 38:24Leviticus 20:10

(12) For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
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Proverbs 3:33Proverbs 6:27Jeremiah 5:7Jeremiah 5:8Jeremiah 5:9Malachi 3:5Hebrews 13:4

(13) If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
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Exodus 21:20Exodus 21:21Exodus 21:26Exodus 21:27Leviticus 25:43Leviticus 25:46Deuteronomy 15:12Deuteronomy 15:13Deuteronomy 15:14Deuteronomy 15:15Jeremiah 34:14Jeremiah 34:15

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Deuteronomy 5:14

(14) What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
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Job 9:32Job 10:2Psalms 7:6Psalms 9:12Psalms 9:19Psalms 10:12Psalms 10:13Psalms 10:14Psalms 10:15Psalms 44:21Psalms 76:9Psalms 143:2

(15) Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
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Job 34:19Nehemiah 5:5Proverbs 14:31Proverbs 22:2Isaiah 58:7Malachi 2:10Psalms 139:14Psalms 139:15Psalms 139:16

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Jeremiah 20:17

(16) If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
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Job 22:7Job 22:8Job 22:9Deuteronomy 15:7Deuteronomy 15:8Deuteronomy 15:9Deuteronomy 15:10Psalms 112:9Luke 16:21Acts 11:29Galatians 2:10Deuteronomy 28:32

(17) Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
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Deuteronomy 15:11Deuteronomy 15:14Nehemiah 8:10Luke 11:41John 13:29Acts 4:32Job 29:13Job 29:14Job 29:15Job 29:16Ezekiel 18:7Ezekiel 18:16

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Joel 1:4Genesis 41:21Leviticus 7:16Leviticus 11:47I Samuel 30:12Proverbs 23:8

(18) (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
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Genesis 29:10

(19) If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
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Job 22:6II Chronicles 28:15Isaiah 58:7Matthew 25:36Matthew 25:43Luke 3:11Acts 9:39James 2:16I John 3:18

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Exodus 39:34

(20) If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
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Job 29:11Deuteronomy 24:13

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Exodus 22:1John 10:12

(21) If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
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Job 6:27Job 22:9Job 24:9Job 29:12Proverbs 23:10Proverbs 23:11Jeremiah 5:28Ezekiel 22:7Micah 2:1Micah 2:2Micah 7:3

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Zechariah 14:10Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 46:2Ezekiel 11:1

(22) Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
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Job 31:10Job 31:40Joshua 22:22Joshua 22:23Psalms 7:4Psalms 7:5Psalms 137:6

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I Samuel 2:31Psalms 44:3Daniel 11:6Zechariah 11:17Exodus 15:16Matthew 21:44

(23) For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
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Job 20:23Job 21:20Genesis 39:9Psalms 119:120Isaiah 13:6Joel 1:15II Corinthians 5:11Job 13:11Job 40:9Job 42:5Job 42:6Psalms 76:7

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Esther 8:6

(24) If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
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Genesis 31:1Deuteronomy 8:12Deuteronomy 8:13Deuteronomy 8:14Psalms 49:6Psalms 49:7Psalms 49:17Psalms 52:7Psalms 62:10Proverbs 10:15Proverbs 11:28Proverbs 30:9

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Romans 8:24Exodus 39:28I Corinthians 9:10

(25) If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
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Esther 5:11Proverbs 23:5Jeremiah 9:23Ezekiel 28:5Luke 12:19Luke 16:19Luke 16:25Deuteronomy 8:17Deuteronomy 8:18Isaiah 10:13Isaiah 10:14Daniel 4:30

(26) If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
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Genesis 1:16Genesis 1:17Genesis 1:18Deuteronomy 4:19Deuteronomy 11:16Deuteronomy 17:3II Kings 23:5II Kings 23:11Jeremiah 8:2Ezekiel 8:16Psalms 8:3Psalms 8:4

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Revelation 6:12Joshua 10:13Isaiah 30:26Isaiah 60:19

(27) And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
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Deuteronomy 11:16Deuteronomy 13:6Isaiah 44:20Romans 1:21Romans 1:28I Kings 19:18Psalms 2:12Hosea 13:2

(28) This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
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Job 31:11Job 9:15Job 23:7Genesis 18:25Deuteronomy 17:2Deuteronomy 17:3Deuteronomy 17:4Deuteronomy 17:5Deuteronomy 17:6Deuteronomy 17:7Deuteronomy 17:9Judges 11:27

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Nehemiah 12:39John 3:31

(29) If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
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II Samuel 1:12II Samuel 4:10II Samuel 4:11II Samuel 16:5II Samuel 16:6II Samuel 16:7II Samuel 16:8Psalms 35:13Psalms 35:14Psalms 35:25Psalms 35:26Proverbs 17:5

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Ezekiel 20:5Deuteronomy 21:15

(30) Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
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Exodus 23:4Exodus 23:5Matthew 5:43Matthew 5:44Romans 12:14I Peter 2:22I Peter 2:23I Peter 3:9Ecclesiastes 5:2Ecclesiastes 5:6Matthew 5:22Matthew 12:36

(31) If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
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I Samuel 24:4I Samuel 24:10I Samuel 26:8II Samuel 16:9II Samuel 16:10II Samuel 19:21II Samuel 19:22Jeremiah 40:15Jeremiah 40:16Luke 9:54Luke 9:55Luke 22:50

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Exodus 33:7Numbers 1:50Numbers 3:25Numbers 4:25Numbers 9:15

(32) The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
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Job 31:17Job 31:18Genesis 19:2Genesis 19:3Judges 19:15Judges 19:20Judges 19:21Isaiah 58:7Matthew 25:35Matthew 25:40Matthew 25:44Matthew 25:45

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Judges 3:25

(33) If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
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Genesis 3:7Genesis 3:8Genesis 3:12Joshua 7:11Proverbs 28:13Hosea 6:7Acts 5:8I John 1:8I John 1:9I John 1:10

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Psalms 32:5Exodus 4:7

(34) Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
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Exodus 23:2Proverbs 29:25Jeremiah 38:4Jeremiah 38:5Jeremiah 38:16Jeremiah 38:19Matthew 27:20Matthew 27:21Matthew 27:22Matthew 27:23Matthew 27:24Matthew 27:25

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Ezekiel 41:3John 18:16Numbers 26:42Psalms 42:4Acts 15:12

(35) Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
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Job 13:3Job 17:3Job 23:3Job 23:4Job 23:5Job 23:6Job 23:7Job 33:6Job 38:1Job 38:2Job 38:3Job 40:4

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I Chronicles 29:29Job 19:23Revelation 22:19II Kings 22:13II Chronicles 20:34II Chronicles 34:21

(36) Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
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Exodus 28:12Isaiah 22:22Job 29:14Isaiah 62:3Philippians 4:1

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Jeremiah 44:25

(37) I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
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Job 9:3Job 13:15Job 14:16Job 42:3Job 42:4Job 42:5Job 42:6Psalms 19:12Genesis 32:28Ephesians 3:12Hebrews 4:15Hebrews 4:16

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Revelation 13:18

(38) If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
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Job 20:27Habakkuk 2:11James 5:4Psalms 65:13

(39) If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
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Genesis 4:12I Kings 21:13I Kings 21:14I Kings 21:15I Kings 21:16I Kings 21:19Proverbs 1:19Isaiah 26:21Ezekiel 22:6Ezekiel 22:12Ezekiel 22:13

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II Kings 12:4Joel 1:4

(40) Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
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Genesis 3:17Genesis 3:18Isaiah 7:23Zephaniah 2:9Malachi 1:3Psalms 72:20

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Isaiah 3:24Exodus 4:16Numbers 3:41Numbers 3:45Numbers 8:16Isaiah 55:13

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