◄ Job 31:2 ►
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Good News Translation
What does Almighty God do to us? How does he repay human deeds?

New Revised Standard Version
What would be my portion from God above, and my heritage from the Almighty on high?

Contemporary English Version
God All-Powerful punishes men who do that.

New American Bible
What portion comes from God above, what heritage from the Almighty on high?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?

Job 20:29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.

Job 27:13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Context
Job's Final Appeal
1I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin. 2For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?3Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?…
Cross References
Numbers 16:30
But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord.

Job 16:19
For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high.

Job 20:29
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.

Job 21:17
How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?

Job 25:2
Power and terror are with him, who maketh peace in his high places.

Job 31:1
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