King James Version (KJV)
Job 31:34
“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?”
Verse in context — Job 31
32
The stranger did not lodge in the street: [but] I opened my doors to the traveller.
33
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
34
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?
35
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.
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