Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life.
New American Standard Bible
By asking for his life in
King James Version
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
Holman Bible
by asking for his life with a curse.
International Standard Version
No, I haven't allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse.
A Conservative Version
(yea, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);
American Standard Version
(Yea, I have not suffered by mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);
Amplified
“No, I have not allowed my mouth to sin
By cursing my enemy and asking for his life.
Bible in Basic English
(For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)
Darby Translation
(Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)
Julia Smith Translation
And I gave not my palate to sin to ask in cursing his soul.
King James 2000
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
Lexham Expanded Bible
no, I have not allowed my mouth to sin, to ask his life with a curse.
Modern King James verseion
also I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I never suffered my mouth to do such a sin, as to wish him evil.
NET Bible
I have not even permitted my mouth to sin by asking for his life through a curse --
New Heart English Bible
(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);
The Emphasized Bible
Neither did I suffer my palate to sin, by asking, with a curse, for his life:
Webster
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
World English Bible
(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:30
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
29 If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him, 30 Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life. 31 If not -- say ye, O men of my tent, 'O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.'
Cross References
Romans 12:14
Bless those persecuting you; bless, and curse not;
Exodus 23:4-5
'When thou meetest thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou dost certainly turn it back to him;
Ecclesiastes 5:2
Cause not thy mouth to hasten, and let not thy heart hasten to bring out a word before God, for God is in the heavens, and thou on the earth, therefore let thy words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:6
Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger, that 'it is an error,' why is God wroth because of thy voice, and hath destroyed the work of thy hands?
Matthew 5:22
but I -- I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.
Matthew 5:43-44
'Ye heard that it was said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and shalt hate thine enemy;
Matthew 12:36
'And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;
James 3:6
and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.
James 3:9-10
with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God;
1 Peter 2:22-23
who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in his mouth,
1 Peter 3:9
not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;