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.Job 31:34 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleDid I fear a great multitude - Was I ever prevented by the voice of the many from decreeing and executing what was right? When many families or tribes espoused a particular cause, which I found, on examination, to be wrong, did they put me in fear, so as to prevent me from doing justice to the weak and friendless? Or, in any of these cases, was I ever, through fear, self-seeking, or favor, prevented from declaring my mind, or constrained to keep my house, lest I should be obliged to give judgment against my conscience? Mr. Good thinks it an imprecation upon himself, if he had done any of the evils which he mentions in the preceding verse. He translates thus: -
"Then let me be confounded before the assembled multitude,
And let the reproach of its families quash me!
Yea, let me be struck dumb! let me never appear abroad!"
I am satisfied that Job 31:38-40, should come in either here, or immediately after Job 31:25; and that Job's words should end with Job 31:37, which, if the others were inserted in their proper places, would be Job 31:40. See the reasons at the end of the chapter, Job 31:40 (note).
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Exodus 23:2 You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
Proverbs 29:25 The fear of man brings a snare: but whoever puts his trust in the LORD shall be safe.
Jeremiah 38:4,5,16,19 Therefore the princes said to the king, We beseech you, let this man be put to death...
Matthew 27:20-26 But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus...
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Job 22:8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelled in it.
Job 34:19 How much less to him that accepts not the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor?...
Exodus 32:27 And he said to them, Thus said the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side...
Numbers 25:14,15 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu...
Nehemiah 5:7 Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said to them, You exact usury, every one of his brother...
Nehemiah 13:4-8,28 And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied to Tobiah...
2 Corinthians 5:16 Why from now on know we no man after the flesh: yes, though we have known Christ after the flesh...
that I
Esther 4:11,14 All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whoever, whether man or women...
Proverbs 24:11,12 If you forbear to deliver them that are drawn to death, and those that are ready to be slain...
Amos 5:11-13 For as much therefore as your treading is on the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone...
Micah 7:3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man...
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