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Job 31:30

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31:30I49 have not even permitted my mouth50 to sin

by asking51 for his life through a curse—

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Footnotes

  1. 49 This verse would then be a parenthesis in which he stops to claim his innocence.
  2. 50 Heb “I have not given my palate.”
  3. 51 The infinitive construct with the ל (lamed) preposition (“by asking”) serves in an epexegetical capacity here, explaining the verb of the first colon (“permitted … to sin”). To seek a curse on anyone would be a sin.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

(I have not let my mouth sin

by asking for his life with a curse),

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I have not allowed my mouth to sin

by invoking a curse against their life—

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I have not allowed my mouth to sin

by asking for his life with a curse.

NLTNew Living Translation

No, I have never sinned by cursing anyone

or by asking for revenge.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

no, I have not allowed my mouth to sin,

to ask his life with a curse.

KJV 1900King James Version

Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin

By wishing a curse to his soul.