Job 31:33 · KJV
“If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: {as Adam: or, after the manner of men}”
— Job 31:33
The stranger did not lodge in the street: {but} I opened my doors to the traveller. {traveller: or, way}
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, {and} went not out of the door?
Job 31 — Context
If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
32The stranger did not lodge in the street: {but} I opened my doors to the traveller. {traveller: or, way}
33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: {as Adam: or, after the manner of men}
34Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, {and} went not out of the door?
35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire {is, that} the Almighty would answer me, and {that} mine adversary had written a book. {my...: or, my sign is that the Almighty will}
Cross References
Proverbs 28:13
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh {them} shall have mercy.
Acts 5:8
And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.
1 John 1:8-10
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Genesis 3:12
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest {to be} with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Hosea 6:7
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. {men: or, Adam}
Joshua 7:11
Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put {it} even among their own stuff.
Genesis 3:7-8
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they {were} naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. {aprons: or, things to gird about}