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Job 31:37 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him like a prince. "
Job 31:37
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35 oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!
36 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and I would bind it to me as a crown.
37 I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him like a prince.
38 If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;
39 if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
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Job 31:1
"“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?"
Job 31:2
"For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?"
Job 31:3
"Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?"
Job 31:4
"Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?"
Job 31:5
"“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit"
Job 31:6
"(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);"
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