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Job Chapter 31 verse 23 Holy Bible

ASV Job 31:23

For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.
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BBE Job 31:23

For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.
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DARBY Job 31:23

For calamity from ùGod was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.
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KJV Job 31:23

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
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WBT Job 31:23

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
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WEB Job 31:23

For calamity from God is a terror to me, By reason of his majesty I can do nothing.
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YLT Job 31:23

For a dread unto me `is' calamity `from' God, And because of His excellency I am not able.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 23. - For destruction from God was a terror to me. I could not, i.e., have acted in the way charged against me by Eliphaz, since I was always God-fearing, and should have been deterred, if by nothing else, at any rate by dread of the Divine vengeance. And by reason of his highness I could not endure. God's majesty and excellency are such that I could not have had the face to resist them. If! had begun such a course of life as Eliphaz laid to my charge (Job 22:5-9), I could not have persisted in it.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) I could not endure.--Rather, I was unable to act thus.