“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?”
Job 31:34 (KJV) |
Job 31:34
From Job 31, in the Book of Job (Old Testament).
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The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
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If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
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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?
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Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
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Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.