Job 31:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ For destruction from God was a terror to me, And by reason of his highness I could not endure.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ For calamity from God was a terror to me, and because of His majesty I could not endure [to face Him] and could do nothing. [Isa. 13:6; Joel 1:15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

²³ for God’s calamity is terror to me; I couldn’t endure his splendor.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ For I have always feared God, like waves flowing over me, whose weight I was unable to bear.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me; and his weight I was not able to bear.

Job 31:23 Cross References

Genesis 39:9

He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”

Nehemiah 5:15

The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God.

Job 13:11

Will not his majesty terrify you and the dread of him fall upon you?

Job 20:23

To fill their belly to the full, God will send his fierce anger into them and rain it upon them as their food.

Job 21:20

Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Job 30:15

Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.

Job 31:3

Does not calamity befall the unrighteous and disaster the workers of iniquity?

Job 40:9

Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

Psalm 119:120

My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments.

Psalm 76:7

But you indeed are awesome! Who can stand before you when your anger is roused?

Psalm 88:15

Wretched and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am desperate.

Isaiah 13:6

Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty!

Joel 1:15

Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.

2 Corinthians 5:11

Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we ourselves are well known to God, and I hope that we are also well known to your consciences.