Job 31:29
Good News Translation
I have never been glad when my enemies suffered, or pleased when they met with disaster;

New Revised Standard Version
“If I have rejoiced at the ruin of those who hated me, or exulted when evil overtook them—

Contemporary English Version
I have never laughed when my enemies were struck by disaster.

New American Bible
Had I rejoiced at the destruction of my enemy or exulted when evil came upon him,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.

2 Samuel 1:12 And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israel, because they were fallen by the sword.

2 Samuel 4:10,11 The man that told me, and said: Saul is dead, who thought he brought good tidings, I apprehended, and slew him in Siceleg, who should have been rewarded for his news. . . .

2 Samuel 16:5-8 And king David came as far as Bahurim: and behold there came out from thence a man of the kindred of the house of Saul named Semei, the son of Gera, and coming out he cursed as he went on, . . .

Psalm 35:13,14,25,26 But as for me, when they were troublesome to me, I was clothed with haircloth. I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer shall be turned into my bosom. . . .

Proverbs 17:5 He that despiseth the poor, reproacheth his maker: and he that rejoiceth at another man's ruin, shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 24:17,18 When thy enemy shall fall, be not glad, and in his ruin let not thy heart rejoice: . . .

Context
Job's Final Appeal
28Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God. 29If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.30For I have not been given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 3:32
And when they had buried Abner in Hebron, king David lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner: and all the people also wept.

Proverbs 17:5
He that despiseth the poor, reproacheth his maker: and he that rejoiceth at another man's ruin, shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 24:17
When thy enemy shall fall, be not glad, and in his ruin let not thy heart rejoice:

Obadiah 1:12
In the day when thou stoodest against him, when strangers carried away his army captive, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem: thou also wast as one of them.

Job 31:28
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