if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

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  • WEB World English Bible

    if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

  • KJV King James Version

    If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

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Cross-references (10)

Passages linked to Job 31:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Ezekiel 8:16 He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house; and I saw at the door of Yahweh’s temple, between the porch and the altar, there were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward Yahweh’s temple, and their faces toward the east. They were worshiping the sun toward the east.
  • Deuteronomy 4:19 and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
  • Deuteronomy 17:3 and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded,
  • 2 Kings 23:5 He got rid of the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky.
  • 2 Kings 23:11 He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of Yahweh’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
  • Jeremiah 8:2 They will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, which they have served, after which they have walked, which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or be buried. They will be like dung on the surface of the earth.
  • Jeremiah 44:17 But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
  • Genesis 1:16-18 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
  • Deuteronomy 11:16 Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them;
  • Psalms 8:3-4 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained; what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

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Explain this verse (14 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain If I was proud of my worldly prosperity and…

If I was proud of my worldly prosperity and felicity, which is meant by the shining of the sun, and brightness of the moon.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 31:26 If I beheld the sun when it…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain If I beheld; not simply, nor only with admiration;…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain This also were an iniquity to be punished by…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain I - This place speaks of the worship of…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 26. If I beheld the sun when it…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Job 31:26-27. If I beheld the sun when it…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain If I beheld the sun when it shined -…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain If I looked unto the sun (as an object…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 26. The sun… the moon — Traces of the…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (26) If I beheld the sun.—It is remarkable that…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain If I beheld the sun when it shined; literally,…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 31:26-28 Like adultery (cp. 31:1, 9-12), worshiping the sun…

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