Job 31:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² Then let my shoulder fall away from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from its socket.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.

Common English Bible

²² may my arm fall from my shoulder, my forearm be broken at the elbow—

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² then may my shoulder fall from its joint, and may my arm, with all its bones, be broken.

Job 31:22 Cross References

Psalm 137:6

Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy.

Job 38:15

Light is withheld from the wicked, and their uplifted arm is broken.

Job 31:40

let thorns grow instead of wheat and foul weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

Job 31:10

then let my wife grind for another, and let other men kneel over her.

Job 31:23

For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.