Job 31:29 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁹If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

Job 31:29 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 24:17-18
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: …
Proverbs 17:5
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
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. …
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. …
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.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Anger Conscience Conscientiousness Cruelty Enemy Faith Forgiveness

Commentary

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

(vv. 24-32)

Four articles more of Job’s protestation we have in these verses, which, as all the rest, not only assure us what he was and did, but teach us what we should be and do:— I. He protests that he never set his heart upon the wealth of this world, nor took the things of it for his portions and happiness. He had gold; he had fine gold. His wealth was great, and he had gotten much. Our wealth is either…

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

(vv. 29)

29. lifted up myself--in malicious triumph (Pr 17:5; 24:17; Psa 7:4).