Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
If I shall see the light when it shall shine, and the moon going in splendor;
New American Standard Bible
Or the moon going in splendor,
King James Version
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
Holman Bible
or at the moon moving in splendor,
International Standard Version
if I look at the sun when it shines or the moon as it rises in steady splendor,
A Conservative Version
if I have beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,
American Standard Version
If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,
Amplified
If I beheld the sun [as an object of worship] when it shone
Or the moon going in its splendor,
Bible in Basic English
If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,
Darby Translation
If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,
King James 2000
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in brightness;
Lexham Expanded Bible
if I looked at [the] sun when it shone or [at the] moon moving [in] splendor,
Modern King James verseion
if I looked to the light when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Did I ever greatly regard the rising of the sun? Or, had I the going down of the moon in great reputation?
NET Bible
if I looked at the sun when it was shining, and the moon advancing as a precious thing,
New Heart English Bible
if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,
The Emphasized Bible
If I looked at the sun, when it flashed forth light, or at the moon, majestically marching along;
Webster
If I have beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
World English Bible
if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,
Youngs Literal Translation
If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking,
Themes
Idolatry » Objects of » Sun, moon, and stars
Idolatry » Objects of, worshipped » By kissing the hand to them
Moon » Worshipping of » Condemned as atheism
Worship » Divinity of Christ » Of heavenly bodies
Interlinear
Ra'ah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
25 If I shall rejoice because of the Multitude of my riches, and because my hand found much; 26 If I shall see the light when it shall shine, and the moon going in splendor; 27 And my heart will be seduced in secret, and my hand shall kiss to my mouth:
Names
Cross References
Ezekiel 8:16
And he brought me to the enclosure of the house of Jehovah within, and behold, a door of the temple of Jehovah, and between the porch and between the altar, about twenty and five men, their backs to the temple, and their faces to the east; and they worshiping the east to the sun.
Deuteronomy 4:19
And lest thou shalt lift up thine eyes to the heavens, and seeing the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of the heavens, and thou wert driven and didst worship to them, and didst serve them, which Jehovah thy God divided them out to all the peoples under all the heavens.
Deuteronomy 17:3
And he will go and serve other gods and will worship to them, and to the sun or to the moon, or to any of the army of the heavens, which I commanded not;
2 Kings 23:5
And he caused the obscurations to cease which the kings of Judah gave, and he will burn incense in the heights in the cities of Judah, and those being round about Jerusalem, and those burning incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the army of the heavens.
2 Kings 23:11
And he will take away the horses which the kings of Judah gave to the sun at the going in of the house of Jehovah into the chamber the king gave the eunuch which was in the open portico, and he burnt the chariots of the sun in fire.
Jeremiah 44:17
But doing, we will do all the word which went forth from our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the heavens, to pour out libations to her, as we did, we and our fathers, our kings and our chiefs in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we shall be filled with bread, and we shall be well, and see not evil.
Genesis 1:16-18
And God will make two great lights; the great light for the rule of the day, and the small light for the rule of the night and the stars.
Deuteronomy 11:16
Watch ye to yourselves, lest your heart shall be enticed, and ye turn aside and serve other gods, and worship to them:
Psalm 8:3-4
For I shall see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers; the moon and the stars which thou didst prepare.
Jeremiah 8:2
And they spread them to the sun and to the moon, and to all the army of the heavens which they loved, and which they served, and which they, went after, and which they sought and which they worshiped to them: they shall not be gathered and they shall not be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.