Job 31:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

Job 31:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

The lusts of the flesh, and the love of the world, are the two fatal rocks on which multitudes split; against these Job protests he was always careful to stand upon his guard. I. Against the lusts of the flesh. He not only kept himself clear from adultery, from defiling his neighbour’s wives (Job 31:9), but from all lewdness with any women whatsoever. He kept no concubine, no mistress, but was inv…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

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 questi…