Key Verse Spotlight
Job 31:14 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?”
Job 31:14
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
For it {is} a fire {that} consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? {did not one...: or, did he not fashion us in one womb?}
If I have withheld the poor from {their} desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
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