World English Bible

Job 31:29

“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;”

Verse in context — Job 31

and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.

If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?

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