Job 31:22
Good News Translation
then may my arms be broken; may they be torn from my shoulders.

New Revised Standard Version
then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket.

Contemporary English Version
I hope that arm will fall from its socket.

New American Bible
Then may my arm fall from the shoulder, my forearm be broken at the elbow!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.

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Job 31:10,40 Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her. . . .

Joshua 22:22,23 The Lord the most mighty God, the Lord the most mighty God, he knoweth, and Israel also shall understand: If with the design of transgression we have set up this altar, let him not save us, but punish us immediately: . . .

Psalm 7:4,5 If I have rendered to them that repaid me evils, let me deservedly fall empty before my enemies. . . .

Psalm 137:6 Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.

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Context
Job's Final Appeal
21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate: 22Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.23For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was unable to bear.…
Cross References
Job 38:15
From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken.

Job 31:23
For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was unable to bear.

Job 31:21
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