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No Secret Sins

33 “Have I covered my transgression like other people,
    to conceal iniquity within myself?[a]
34 Have I feared large crowds?
    Has my family’s contempt ever terrified me
        so that I remained silent and wouldn’t go outside?”

Request for A Hearing

35 “Who will grant me a hearing?
    Here’s my signature[b]—let the Almighty answer!
Since my adversary indicted me,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:33 Or bosom
  2. Job 31:35 Lit. seal

33 if I have concealed(A) my sin as people do,[a]
    by hiding(B) my guilt in my heart
34 because I so feared the crowd(C)
    and so dreaded the contempt of the clans
    that I kept silent(D) and would not go outside—

35 (“Oh, that I had someone to hear me!(E)
    I sign now my defense—let the Almighty answer me;
    let my accuser(F) put his indictment in writing.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:33 Or as Adam did