Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 31:28 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 28. 28This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
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Role in This Section
Job 31:28 advances the thought unit with the words “This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God….” Job states “This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge” as one poetic claim in Job Denies Trust in Wealth, Idolatry, Revenge, and Inhospitality.
Read It With
- Job 31:24–31:32
Read Job 31:28 with 31:24–31:32. Read alone, “This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God…” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job disclaims confidence in gold, worship of sun or moon, delight in an enemy's ruin, cursing, selfish consumption, and failure to shelter strangers.
Why It Needs Context
Job 31:28 depends on 31:24–31:32; isolating “This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God…” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Job and “Job Denies Trust in Wealth, Idolatry, Revenge, and Inhospitality.”
Read Job 31:24–32 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 31:24–31:32 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Job Denies Trust in Wealth, Idolatry, Revenge, and Inhospitality.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 24. 24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
Verse 25. 25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
Verse 26. 26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
Verse 27. 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
Verse 28. 28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
Verse 29. 29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
Verse 30. 30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
Verse 31. 31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
Verse 32. 32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
Continue in Context
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Read Job 31:24–31:32 — Job Denies Trust in Wealth, Idolatry, Revenge, and InhospitalitySources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 31:24–31:32, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
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Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 31:24–31:32
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