Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
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
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, ...
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.
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 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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:34
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
33 If I covered my transgressions like Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom, 34 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. 35 Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my mark. Let the Almighty answer me, and my Accuser write an indictment.
Cross References
Exodus 23:2
You shall not follow a multitude to do evil. Neither shall you speak in a cause in order to follow many in order to wrest judgment.
Exodus 32:27
And he said to them, Thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel: Each man put his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and kill each one his brother, and each one his neighbor, and each one his kindred.
Numbers 25:14-15
And the name of the Israelite who was killed, he who was struck with the woman of Midian, was Zimri, the son of Salu, ruler of a chief house of the Simeonites.
Nehemiah 5:7
And my heart within myself ruled, and I rebuked the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, You exact interest, each one from his brother. And I held a great gathering against them.
Nehemiah 13:4-8
And before this, Eliashib the priest, who was set over the rooms of the house of our God, and who was related to Tobiah.
Nehemiah 13:28
And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; and I chased him from me.
Esther 4:11
And the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his, execution, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter so that he may live. But I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.
Esther 4:14
For if you are completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance shall arise to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house shall be destroyed. And who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for a time like this?
Job 22:8
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth, and the honored man lived in it.
Job 34:19
How much less to Him who does not lift up the face of rulers, nor regard the rich before the poor? For all of them are the work of His hands.
Proverbs 24:11-12
Deliver those being taken to death, and those stumbling to be killed, unless you hold back.
Proverbs 29:25
The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Jehovah shall be safe.
Jeremiah 38:4-5
And the rulers said to the king, Please let this man be put to death. For in this way he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them. For this man does not seek the good of this people, but the hurt.
Jeremiah 38:16
Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As Jehovah lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, nor will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.
Jeremiah 38:19
And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews who have fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and lest they hurt me.
Amos 5:11-13
So, because of your trampling on the poor, and you take tribute of grain from him; you have built houses of carved stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from them.
Micah 7:3
Both hands are on evil, to do it well. The ruler asks for a bribe, and the judge also; and the great man speaks the evil desire of his soul. So they weave it together.
Matthew 27:20-26
But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowd that they should ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.
2 Corinthians 5:16
So as we now know no one according to flesh, but even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we no longer know Him so.