Job 31:2 — King James Version← Study notes
“For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?”
Job 31:2 — Hebrew Interlinear
Hebrew · Job 31:27 words
ℹWords are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.
Church Fathers on Job 31:2
For what portion would God have in me from above, and what inheritance would the Almighty have from on high? As though he said in plain words; ‘If I defile, my mind in thought, I can never be the ‘inheritance’ of Him, Who is the Author of purity.’ For the rest are no good things at all, if to the eyes of the secret Judge they be not approved by the testimony of chastity. For all the virtues lift themselves up in the sight of the Creator by reciprocal aid, that because one…
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