Top Verses from Job 31  

"I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a virgin." (NIV)

I DICTATED a covenant (an agreement) to my eyes; how then could I look [lustfully] upon a girl? (AMP)

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? (KJV)

But no stranger had to spend the night in the street, for my door was always open to the traveler – (NIV)

The temporary resident has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my door to the wayfaring man-- (AMP)

The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller. (KJV)

If I have concealed my sin as people do, by hiding my guilt in my heart (NIV)

If like Adam or like [other] men I have concealed my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom (AMP)

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: (KJV)

I would give him an account of my every step; I would present it to him as to a ruler.) – (NIV)

I would count out to Him the number of my steps [with every detail of my life], approaching His presence as a prince-- (AMP)

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him. (KJV)

"if my land cries out against me and all its furrows are wet with tears," (NIV)

For if my land has cried out against me and its furrows have complained together with tears [that I have no right to them] (AMP)

If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; (KJV)

Because I so feared the crowd and so dreaded the contempt of the clans that I kept silent and would not go outside – (NIV)

Because I feared the great multitude and the contempt of families terrified me so that I kept silence and did not go out of the door-- (AMP)

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? (KJV)

("Oh, that I had someone to hear me! I sign now my defense – let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser put his indictment in writing." (NIV)

Oh, for a hearing! Oh, for an answer from the Almighty! Let my adversary write out His indictment [and put His vague accusations in tangible form] in a book! (AMP)

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. (KJV)

Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers? (NIV)

Did not He Who made me in the womb make [my servant]? And did not One fashion us both in the womb? [Prov. 14:31; 22:2; Mal. 2:10.] (AMP)

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? (KJV)

If I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor (NIV)

If I beheld [as an object of worship] the sunlight when it shone or the moon walking in its brightness, (AMP)

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

Then let briers come up instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended." (NIV)

Let thistles grow instead of wheat and cockleburs instead of barley. The [controversial] words of Job [with his friends] are ended. (AMP)

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. (KJV)