Job 31:29 “If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him…”

Job 31:29

If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

World English Bible

“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

American Standard Version

If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him

Geneva Bible 1599

If I reioyced at his destruction that hated me, or was mooued to ioye when euill came vpon him,

Darby Translation

If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him;

Young's Literal Translation

If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

Bible in Basic English

If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

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Cross references

“If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:”

Proverbs 17:5 2 Samuel 1:12 2 Samuel 16:5–8 2 Samuel 4:10 2 Samuel 4:11 Psalm 35:13

Proverbs 17:5 · BSB

He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.

2 Samuel 1:12 · BSB

They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the people of the LORD and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

2 Samuel 16:5–8 · BSB

As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the family of the house of Saul was just coming out. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and as he approached, he kept yelling out curses.

2 Samuel 4:10 · BSB

when someone told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was a bearer of good news, I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was his reward for his news!

2 Samuel 4:11 · BSB

How much more, when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house and on his own bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth!”

Psalm 35:13 · BSB

Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.

Also

Obadiah 1:12

Obadiah 1:12 · BSB

But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

28this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.

30I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse—

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