World English Bible

Job 31:22

“then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.”

Verse in context — Job 31

if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.

If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;

A poetic exploration of suffering, faith, and God’s sovereignty.