Bible verse
I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse—
Job 31:30 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 31.
26 if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,
27 so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
28 this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.
29 If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—
30 I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse—
31 if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—
32 but no stranger had to lodge on the street, for my door has been open to the traveler—
33 if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,
34 because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—
KJV
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
ASV
(Yea, I have not suffered by mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);
ERV
(Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)
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