Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

, If I, shall fear a great multitude, and the contempt of families terrify me, and I will be silent and not go out of my door.

New American Standard Bible

Because I feared the great multitude,
And the contempt of families terrified me,
And kept silent and did not go out of doors?

King James Version

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?

Holman Bible

because I greatly feared the crowds,
and the contempt of the clans terrified me,
so I grew silent and would not go outside?

International Standard Version

Have I feared large crowds? Has my family's contempt ever terrified me so that I remained silent and wouldn't go outside?"

A Conservative Version

because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me so that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door--

American Standard Version

Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door-

Amplified


Because I feared the great multitude,
And the contempt of families terrified me,
So that I kept silence and did not acknowledge my sin and did not go out of the door?

Bible in Basic English

For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door;

Darby Translation

Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door, ...

King James 2000

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?

Lexham Expanded Bible

because I dreaded [the] great multitude, and [the] contempt of clans terrified me, so that I kept quiet, I did not go out of [the] doorway?

Modern King James verseion

then let me tremble before a great multitude, and be terrified by the scorn of families; and I will be silent and not go out the door.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For if I had feared any great multitude of people, or if I had been despised of the simple; Oh then should I have been afraid. Thus have I quietly spent my life, and not gone out at the door.

NET Bible

because I was terrified of the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I remained silent and would not go outdoors --

New Heart English Bible

because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door?

The Emphasized Bible

Then let me be made to tremble at a great throng, yea let, the contempt of families, terrify me, so that, keeping silence, I shall not go out of the door!

Webster

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?

World English Bible

because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn't go out of the door --

Youngs Literal Translation

Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Did I fear
ערץ 
`arats 
Usage: 15

a great
רב 
Rab 
Usage: 458

or did the contempt
בּוּז 
Buwz 
Usage: 11

משׁפּחה 
Mishpachah 
Usage: 303

me, that I kept silence
דּמם 
Damam 
Usage: 30

and went not out
יצא 
Yatsa' 
....out, ....forth, bring, come, proceed, go, depart,
Usage: 1068

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense Continued

33 If I covered my transgression, as man, to hide mine iniquity in my bosom: 34 , If I, shall fear a great multitude, and the contempt of families terrify me, and I will be silent and not go out of my door. 35 Who will give to me hearing to me.? Behold, my sign, the Almighty will answer me, and the man contending with me wrote a book.


Cross References

Exodus 23:2

Thou shalt not be after multitudes for evil; thou shalt not answer for the multitude to stretch out after multitudes to pervert justice.

Exodus 32:27

And he will say to them, Thus said Jehovah the God of Israel, Put ye each his sword upon his thigh, and pass ye through and turn ye back from gate to gate in the camp, and slay ye each his brother, and each his friend, and each his near one.

Numbers 25:14-15

And the name of the man the Israelite being smitten, who was smitten with the Midianitess, Zimri, son of Salu, chief of the house of a father to the Simeonites.

Nehemiah 5:7

And my heart will take counsel to me, and I shall contend with the nobles and the prefects, and say to them, Ye impose a debt each upon his brother. And I shall give a great convocation against them.

Nehemiah 13:4-8

And before this, Eliashib the priest being given over the cells of the house of our God, being near to Tobiah:

Nehemiah 13:28

And from the sons of Joiada, son of Eliashib the great priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: and I shall cause him to flee from me.

Esther 4:11

All the king's servants, and the people of the kings provinces, knowing that every man and woman who shall go in to the king to the inner enclosure who shall not be called, one edict of his to put to death only which the king shall stretch out to him the sceptre of gold, and he lived: and I was not called to go in to the king this thirty days.

Esther 4:14

For if being silent, thou shalt be silent in this time, breath and deliverance shall stand up to the Jews from another place; and thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who shall know if for a time like this thou camest to the kingdom?

Job 22:8

And the man of arm, to him the earth; and the lifted up of face dwelt in it.

Job 34:19

Who accepted not the face of chiefs, and looked not upon the rich one before the poor: for his hand made all of them.

Proverbs 24:11-12

If thou shalt refrain to deliver those being brought to death, and those going to be slain;

Proverbs 29:25

The fear of man will give a snare: and he trusting in Jehovah shall be exalted.

Jeremiah 38:4-5

And the chiefs will say to the king, Now shall this man be put to death: for thus he is relaxing the hands of the men of war remaining in this city, and the hands of all the people to speak to them according to these words; for this man sought not for peace to this people but for evil.

Jeremiah 38:16

And king Zedekiah will swear to Jeremiah in secret, saying, Jehovah lives who made to us this soul, if I shall put thee to death, and if I shall give thee into the hand of these men who are seeking thy soul

Jeremiah 38:19

And king Zedekiah will say to Jeremiah, I fear the Jews who fell to the Chaldeans, lest they shall give me into their hand and they illtreated me.

Amos 5:11-13

For this, because of your treading upon the poor one, and ye will take away the liftings up of wheat from him: ye built houses of hewn stone, and ye shall not dwell in them; ye planted vineyards of desire and ye shall not drink their wine.

Micah 7:3

For doing evil with the hands to do well, the chief asking, and the judge, for peace; and the great one, he spake the mischief of his soul: and they will entangle it

Matthew 27:20-26

And the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5:16

So that we from now know none according to the flesh: and if also we have known Christ according to the:flesh, but now we know no more.

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