A moment in scripture
Job 31:34
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Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
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The surrounding passage
- Job 31:32
The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
- Job 31:33
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
- Job 31:35
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
- Job 31:36
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.