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No Rejoicing over the Plight of Adversary

29 “Have I rejoiced in the destruction of those who hate me,
    or have I been happy that evil caught up with him?
30 No, I haven’t allowed my mouth to sin
    by asking for his life[a] with a curse.
31 People in my household have said,
    ‘We cannot find anyone who has not been satisfied with his meat,’ haven’t they?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:30 Lit. soul

29 “If I have rejoiced at my enemy’s misfortune(A)
    or gloated over the trouble that came to him(B)
30 I have not allowed my mouth to sin
    by invoking a curse against their life(C)
31 if those of my household have never said,
    ‘Who has not been filled with Job’s meat?’(D)

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