Job 31:30 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁰Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

Job 31:30 —

Old words in this verse

suffer: — often: allow, permit.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 12:14
Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
1 Peter 3:9
Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
1 Peter 2:22-23
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: …
James 3:9-10
Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. …
Matthew 5:43-44
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. …

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. 30)

30. mouth--literally, “palate.” (See on Job 6:30). wishing--literally, “so as to demand his (my enemy’s) soul,” that is, “life by a curse.” This verse parenthetically confirms Job 31:30. Job in the patriarchal age of the promise, anterior to the law, realizes the Gospel spirit, which was the end of the law (compare Le 19:18; De 23:6, with Mt 5:43, 44).