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Job 31:35

Job allowed anyone to accuse him (verse 34). And his friends did accuse him (Job 22:4-9). Job did not really want his friends to accuse him. They had no evidence anyway. But there was someone whom Job wanted to accuse him.

Job believed that God caused Job’s troubles. Job could not explain why God would do this. So Job wanted to go to God’s court. Job was confident that God would listen. And Job was confident that God would be fair (Job 23:4-7).

Job thought that God was his accuser. But Chapter s 1 and 2 teach us that this idea was not correct. Satan (the devil) was Job’s accuser. And Satan caused Job’s problems.

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See also Job 31:35 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 31:35. _O THAT ONE WOULD HEAR ME!_] I wish to have a fair and full hearing: I am grievously accused; and have no proper opportunity of clearing myself, and establishing my own innocence. _B...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    O THAT ONE WOULD HEAR ME! - This refers undoubtedly to God. It is, literally, “Who will give to me one hearing me;” and the wish is that which he has so often expressed, that he might get his cause fa...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 31 _ 1. My chastity and righteousness (Job 31:1)_ 2. My philanthropy (Job 31:13) 3. My integrity and hospitality (Job 31:24) 4. Let God and man disprove me ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 31. THE OATH OF CLEARING. Job's final protestation of his innocence, and appeal to God to judge him. This chapter, says Duhm, is the high-water mark of the OT ethic, higher than the Decalogue or e...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OH! Figure of speech _E_ cphonesis. App-6. ADVERSARY. man (Hebrew. _i_. _h_. App-14.) of my quarrel....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    OH THAT ONE WOULD HEAR ME, &C.— The clause, _behold, my desire is,_ &c. might be better rendered, _Lo, here my sign or pledge, let the Almighty question me:_ for the Hebrew word signifies, equally, _l...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    e. He lived openly and would not hesitate to have the Almighty publish his record. (Job 31:29-40) TEXT 31:29-40 29 If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself w...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _OH THAT ONE WOULD HEAR ME! BEHOLD, MY DESIRE IS, THAT THE ALMIGHTY WOULD ANSWER ME, AND THAT MINE ADVERSARY HAD WRITTEN A BOOK._ Job returns to his wish (Job 13:22; Job 19:23). Omit is: 'Behold, my s...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB PROTESTS THE INNOCENCE OF HIS PAST LIFE Job's virtues are those of a great Arab prince, such as are admired still: namely, blameless family life, consideration for the poor and weak, charity, mod...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RV 'Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me!) And that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!' Job puts his signature to the declaration of...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    OH THAT ONE WOULD HEAR ME! — The rendering noticed in the margin is probably the right one — _Oh that I had one to hear me! Lo, here is my mark! i.e.,_ my signature, my declaration, which I am ready t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מִ֤י יִתֶּן ־לִ֨י ׀ שֹׁ֘מֵ֤עַֽ לִ֗י הֶן ־תָּ֭

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1; Job 30:1; Job 31:1 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job looks back to the y...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE CLEAN LIFE Job 31:1 Job had specially guarded against impurity, for its heritage is one of calamity and disaster. He is sure that even if he were weighed by God Himself there would be no iniquity...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This whole chapter is taken up with Job's solemn oath of innocence. It is ills official answer to the line of argument adopted by his three friends. In the process of his declaration he called on God...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Oh that one would hear me! behold, my (a) desire [is, that] the Almighty would answer me, and [that] mine adversary had written a book. (a) This is a sufficient token of my righteousness, that God is...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _He himself. Hebrew, "my adversary would write a book." His very accusation would establish my cause, provided he adhered to the truth. (Calmet) --- I would carry it about as a trophy. (Haydock) --- A...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (33) В¶ If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: (34) Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not ou...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    OH, THAT ONE WOULD HEAR ME!.... Or, "who will give me a hearer?" l Oh, that I had one! not a nearer of him as a teacher and instructor of many, as he had been, Job 4:3; or only to hear what he had del...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire [is, that] the Almighty would answer me, and [that] mine adversary had written a book. Ver. 35. _Oh that one would hear me_] _Quis det mihi auscultantem m...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _O that one would hear me!_ O that I might have my cause heard by any just and impartial judge! _Behold, my desires_, &c. So the Vulgate and the Targum understand תוי, _tavi_, here, deriving it from א...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Job's Appeal to be Heard...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Oh, that one would hear me! namely, as he here asserted his innocence, for his complaint had been all along that God paid no attention to his crying. BEHOLD, MY DESIRE IS THAT THE ALMIGHTY WOULD ANSWE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Though Job's misery was complete, he returns in this chapter to the defence of his whole life, which was comparatively more virtuous than that of any other man. God had said this to Satan long before...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    BEHOLD, MY DESIRE, THAT THE ALMIGHTY WOULD ANSWER ME: Or, behold my sign is that the Almighty will answer me...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Job longed for someone to hear and answer him. "So like. defendant in court, he signed (figuratively) his statement of his innocence" _(Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 754)._ He also desires that God would w...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    33-40 Job clears himself from the charge of hypocrisy. We are loth to confess our faults, willing to excuse them, and to lay the blame upon others. But he that thus covers his sins, shall not prosper...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    OH THAT ONE WOULD HEAR ME! Oh that I might have my cause heard by any just and impartial judge! THAT THE ALMIGHTY WOULD ANSWER ME, i.e. answer my desire herein; either by hearing me himself, or by app...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 31:35 Oh H5414 (H8799) hear H8085 (H8802) mark H8420 Almighty H7706 answer H6030 (H8799) Prosecutor...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He insists on his integrity. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: An upright heart does not dread a scrutiny. A good man is willing to know the worst of himse...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 31:1. _A maid._ The LXX, followed by the Chaldaic, read virgin; but our English version has the most ancient support. Job was pure and spotless in conversation with women. He abhorred seduction, a...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 31:35 Job wishes once again for an answer regarding his offenses (see vv. Job 31:13). Then he could give AN ACCOUNT OF ALL MY STEPS to the One who numbers them

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _JOB’S SELF-VINDICATION.—HIS SOLILOQUY CONTINUED_ Concludes his speeches by a solemn, particular, and extended declaration of the purity and uprightness of his life. Especial reference to his _private...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION The conclusion of Job's long speech (ch. 26-31.) is now reached. He winds it up by a solemn vindication of himself from all the charges of wicked conduct which have been alleged or insinuat...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Job, chapter 31. Job has pretty well talked down all of his friends. Bildad has had his last word and Job is still responding, and has been responding, actua...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Job 13:21; Job 13:22; Job 13:24; Job 13:3; Job 17:3;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Had written — Had given me his charge written in a book or paper, as the manner was in judicial proceedings. This shews that Job did not live, before letters were in use. And undoubtedly the first let...

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