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Job 31:37 KJV
Job · chapter 31 · verse 37
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.Job 31:37 · King James Version
Job 31:37 in context
35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
36Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
38If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- declarenâgadproperly, to frontH5046 →
- numbermiçpâra number, definite or indefinite (large, innumerableH4557 →
- princenâgîyda commander , civil, military or religiousH5057 →
- stepstsaʻada pace or regular stepH6806 →
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We have here Job's protestation against three more sins, together with his general appeal to God's bar and his petition for a hearing there, which, it is likely, was intended to conclude his discourse (and therefore we will consider it last), but that another particular sin occurred, from which he thought it requisite…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 33-40