Księga Hioba 31:30

Biblia Tysiąclecia

(I owszem nie dałem zgrzeszyć ustom moim, abym miał żądać przeklęstwa duszy jego.)

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Alem i potąd nie dał zgrzeszyć ustam moim, abym mu miał życzyć przeklęctwa.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
(I owszem nie dałem zgrzeszyć ustom moim, abym miał żądać przeklęstwa duszy jego.)

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
[byłbym winny], jednak nie dopuściłem, by zgrzeszyły moje usta - nie przeklinałem go i nie prosiłem o odebranie mu duszy!

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Nigdy nie dopuszczałem, by zgrzeszyło me podniebienie i zażądało przekleństwa jego duszy.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
(Nawet nie pozwoliłem zgrzeszyć swoim ustom, pragnąc przekleństwa na jego duszy);

Biblia Warszawska
Nigdy nie dopuściłem, aby moje usta zgrzeszyły, przeklinając go na śmierć.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

have: Exodus 23:4, Exodus 23:5, Matthew 5:43, Matthew 5:44, Romans 12:14, 1 Peter 2:22, 1 Peter 2:23, 1 Peter 3:9

mouth: Heb. palate, Ecclesiastes 5:2, Ecclesiastes 5:6, Matthew 5:22, Matthew 12:36, James 3:6, James 3:9, James 3:10

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 24:6 - the Lord forbid 2 Samuel 16:9 - let me go Job 33:2 - mouth Job 34:3 - mouth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin,.... Which, as it is the instrument of speech, is often the means of much sin; particularly of cursing men, and expressing much bitterness against enemies; but Job laid an embargo upon it, kept it as with a bridle, restrained it from uttering any evil, or wishing any to his worst adversaries; which is difficult to do, when provocations are given, as follows:

by wishing a curse to his soul; not to his soul as distinct from his body, being the superior excellency and immortal part; that it be everlastingly damned, as wicked men wish to their own souls, and the souls of others, but to his person, wishing some calamity might befall him, some disease seize upon him, or that God would take him away by death: Job would never suffer himself to wish anything of this kind unto his enemy.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Neither have I suffered my mouth - Margin, as in Hebrew, palate. The word is often used for the mouth in general, and especially as the organ of the voice from the use and importance of the palate in speaking. Proverbs 8:7. “For my palate (חכי chikiy) speaketh truth.” It is used as the organ of taste, Job 12:11; compare Job 6:30; Psalms 119:103.

By wishing a curse to his soul - It must have been an extraordinary degree of piety which would permit a man to say this with truth, that he had never harbored a wish of injury to an enemy. Few are the people, probably, even now, who could say this, and who are enabled to keep their minds free from every wish that calamities and woes may overtake those who are seeking their hurt. Yet this is the nature of true religion. It controls the heart, represses the angry and revengeful feelings, and creates in the soul an earnest desire for the happiness even of those who injure us.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 31:30. Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin — I have neither spoken evil of him, nor wished evil to him. How few of those called Christians can speak thus concerning their enemies; or those who have done them any mischief!