Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,
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,
Darby Translation
If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,
Julia Smith Translation
If I shall see the light when it shall shine, and the moon going in splendor;
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 was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store; 26 If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way, 27 A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;
Names
Cross References
Ezekiel 8:16
And he took me into the inner square of the Lord's house, and at the door of the Temple of the Lord, between the covered way and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs turned to the Temple of the Lord and their faces turned to the east; and they were worshipping the sun, turning to the east.
Deuteronomy 4:19
And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.
Deuteronomy 17:3
By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders;
2 Kings 23:5
And he put an end to the false priests, who had been put in their positions by the kings of Judah to see to the burning of offerings in the high places in the towns of Judah and the outskirts of Jerusalem, and all those who made offerings to Baal and to the sun and the moon and the twelve signs and all the stars of heaven.
2 Kings 23:11
And he took away the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the way into the house of the Lord, by the room of Nathan-melech, the unsexed servant, which was in the outer part of the building, and the carriages of the sun he put on fire.
Jeremiah 44:17
But we will certainly do every word which has gone out of our mouths, burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her as we did, we and our fathers and our kings and our rulers, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had food enough and did well and saw no evil.
Genesis 1:16-18
And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.
Deuteronomy 11:16
But take care that your hearts are not turned to false ways so that you become servants and worshippers of other gods;
Psalm 8:3-4
When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;
Jeremiah 8:2
And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.