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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Job 31:23 Catholic Bible: Because I fear God's punishment, I could never do such a thing. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/job/31-23.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/job/31-23.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/job/31-23.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/job/1.htm">Job</a> > <a href="/gntd/job/31.htm">Chapter 31</a> > Verse 23</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/31-22.htm" title="Job 31:22">◄</a> Job 31:23 <a href="../job/31-24.htm" title="Job 31:24">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/job/31.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/job/31.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Because I fear God's punishment, I could never do such a thing. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/job/31.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/job/31.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I could not have been abusive; I was terrified at the thought that God might punish me. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/job/31.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />For I dread calamity from God, and his majesty will overpower me. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/job/31.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was unable to bear.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was unable to bear.</p><p class="hdg">destruction</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/20-23.htm">Job 20:23</a> May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/21-20.htm">Job 21:20</a> His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/39-9.htm">Genesis 39:9</a> Neither is there any thing which is not in my power, or that he hath not delivered to me, but thee, who art his wife; how then can I do this wicked thing, and sin against my God?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/119-120.htm">Psalm 119:120</a> Pierce thou my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy judgments.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/13-6.htm">Isaiah 13:6</a> Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near: it shall come as a destruction from the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joel/1-15.htm">Joel 1:15</a> Ah, ah, ah, for the day: because the day of the Lord is at hand, and it shall come like destruction from the mighty.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/5-11.htm">2 Corinthians 5:11</a> Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we use persuasion to men: but to God we are manifest. And I trust also that in your consciences we are manifest.</p><p class="hdg">by</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/13-11.htm">Job 13:11</a> As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his dread shall fall upon you.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/40-9.htm">Job 40:9</a> And hast thou an arm like God, and canst thou thunder with a voice like him?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/42-5.htm">Job 42:5,6</a> With the hearing of the ear, I have heard thee, but now my eye seeth thee. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/76-7.htm">Psalm 76:7</a> Thou art terrible, and who shall resist thee? from that time thy wrath.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/job/31.htm">Job's Final Appeal</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">22</span>Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken. <span class="reftext">23</span><span class="highl">For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was unable to bear.</span><span class="reftext">24</span>If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence:…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../nehemiah/5-15.htm">Nehemiah 5:15</a></span><br />But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable to the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every day forty sicles: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I did not so for the fear of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/13-11.htm">Job 13:11</a></span><br />As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his dread shall fall upon you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/30-15.htm">Job 30:15</a></span><br />I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/31-3.htm">Job 31:3</a></span><br />Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/88-15.htm">Psalm 88:15</a></span><br />I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/job/27-15.htm">Able</a> <a href="/job/31-3.htm">Calamity</a> <a href="/job/31-12.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/job/23-15.htm">Dread</a> <a href="/job/3-25.htm">Dreaded</a> <a href="/job/20-21.htm">Endure</a> <a href="/job/20-6.htm">Excellency</a> <a href="/esther/9-26.htm">Faced</a> <a href="/job/29-24.htm">Fear</a> <a href="/isaiah/13-3.htm">Highness</a> <a href="/job/31-17.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/job/13-11.htm">Majesty</a> <a href="/job/30-18.htm">Power</a> <a href="/job/26-2.htm">Powerless</a> <a href="/job/23-7.htm">Reason</a> <a href="/job/13-11.htm">Splendor</a> <a href="/job/22-10.htm">Terror</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/job/32-12.htm">Able</a> <a href="/psalms/18-18.htm">Calamity</a> <a href="/job/31-29.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/psalms/14-5.htm">Dread</a> <a href="/job/31-34.htm">Dreaded</a> <a href="/psalms/9-7.htm">Endure</a> <a href="/job/37-4.htm">Excellency</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-17.htm">Faced</a> <a href="/job/31-34.htm">Fear</a> <a href="/isaiah/13-3.htm">Highness</a> <a href="/job/31-33.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/job/37-4.htm">Majesty</a> <a href="/job/36-5.htm">Power</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-10.htm">Powerless</a> <a href="/job/35-9.htm">Reason</a> <a href="/job/31-26.htm">Splendor</a> <a href="/job/33-7.htm">Terror</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/job/31-23.htm">Job 31:23 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/job/31-23.htm">Job 31:23 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/job/31-23.htm">Job 31:23 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/job/31-23.htm">Job 31:23 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/job/31-23.htm">Job 31:23 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/job/31-23.htm">Job 31:23 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/job/31-23.htm">Job 31:23 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/job/31-23.htm">Job 31:23 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/job/31-23.htm">Job 31:23 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: a and because calamity can could destruction do dreaded fear For from God his I is majesty me not nothing of splendor such terror things to<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/job/31-23.htm">OT Poetry: Job 31:23 For calamity from God is a terror (Jb) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/31-22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 31:22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 31:22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/31-24.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 31:24"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 31:24" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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