Job 31:37
Good News Translation
I would tell God everything I have done, and hold my head high in his presence.

New Revised Standard Version
I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him.

Contemporary English Version
And with my head held high, I would tell him everything I have ever done.

New American Bible
Of all my steps I should give him an account; like a prince I should present myself before him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.

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Job 9:3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.

Job 13:15 Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.

Job 14:16 Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins.

Job 42:3-6 Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have spoken unwisely, and things that above measure exceeded my knowledge. . . .

Psalm 19:12 Who can understand sins? from my secret ones cleanse me, O Lord:

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Genesis 32:28 But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel; for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?

Ephesians 3:12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

Hebrews 4:15,16 For we have not a high priest who cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin. . . .

1 John 3:19-21 In this we know that we are of the truth and in his sight shall persuade our hearts. . . .

Context
Job's Final Appeal
36That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown? 37At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.38If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn:…
Cross References
Job 1:3
And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a family exceedingly great: and this man was great among all the people of the east.

Job 21:28
For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

Job 29:25
If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned.

Job 31:4
Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?

Job 31:36
That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?

Job 31:36
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