Księga Hioba 31:28

Biblia Tysiąclecia

I toćby była nieprawość osądzenia godna; bobym się tem zaprzał Boga z wysokości.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Abowiem by to była złość godna pomsty, gdybych się zaprzał Boga, który jest na wysokości.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
I toćby była nieprawość osądzenia godna; bobym się tem zaprzał Boga z wysokości.

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
również to byłaby nieprawość godna kary sędziego, bo w ten sposób sprzeniewierzyłbym się Bogu z wysoka.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
to byłby to występek do osądzenia, bo bym się tym zaparł Boga na wysokości.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
I to byłaby nieprawość karygodna, bo zaparłbym się Boga z wysoka.

Biblia Warszawska
I to byłby występek karygodny, bo bym się zaparł Boga na wysokości.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

an: Job 31:11, Job 9:15, Job 23:7, Genesis 18:25, Deuteronomy 17:2-7, Deuteronomy 17:9, Judges 11:27, Psalms 50:6, Hebrews 12:23

for: Joshua 24:23, Joshua 24:27, Proverbs 30:9, Titus 1:16, 2 Peter 2:1, 1 John 2:23, Jude 1:4

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 3:32 - lifted

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This also [were] an iniquity [to be punished by] the judge,.... As well as adultery, Job 31:11; by the civil magistrates and judges of the earth, who are God's vicegerents, and therefore it behooves them to take cognizance of such an iniquity, and to punish for it, which affects in so peculiar a manner the honour and worship of the true God; this by the law of Moses was punished by stoning to death,

Deuteronomy 13:9; however this will be taken notice of and punished by God the Judge of all, whose law is broken hereby, and who will visit this iniquity more especially on those who commit it, and their posterity after them. Idolaters of every sort shall have their part and portion in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, Exodus 20:3; the consideration of its being such a heinous sin, and so deserving of punishment, deterred Job from it; the Targum paraphrases it, a most amazing iniquity, it being, as follows, a denial of the true God:

for I should have denied the God [that is] above; that is, had he worshipped the sun and moon secretly or openly; for, as the atheist denies him in words, the idolater denies him in facts, worshipping the creature besides the Creator, and giving his glory to another, and his praise to idols; which is a virtual denial of him, even of him who is above the sun and moon in place, being higher than the heavens; and in nature, excellency, and glory, being the Creator of them, and they his creatures; and in power and authority, who commands the sun, and it rises not, and has appointed the moon for seasons, Job 9:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judqe - Note Job 31:11. Among the Hebrews idolatry was an offence punishable by death by stoning; Deuteronomy 17:2-7. It is possible, also, that this might have been elsewhere in the patriarchal times a crime punishable in this manner. At all events, Job regarded it as a heinous offence, and one of which the magistrate ought to take cognizance.

For I should have denied the God that is above - The worship of the heavenly bodies would have been in fact the denial of the existence of any Superior Being. This, in fact, always occurs, for idolaters have no knowledge of the true God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 31:28. For I should have denied the God that is above. — Had I paid Divine adoration to them, I should have thereby denied the God that made them.