Job 31:2 BSB — MannaFest

Job 31:2

For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?

KJV

For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

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Commentary

2 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXI (604)

For what portion would God have in me from above, and what inheritance would the Almighty have from on high? As though he said in plain words; 'If I defile, my mind in thought, I can never be the 'inheritance' of Him, Who is the Author of purity.' For the rest are no good things at all, if to the eyes of the secret Judge they be not approved by the testimony of chastity.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Those that wallow in uncleanness render themselves utterly unfit for communion with God, either in grace here or in glory hereafter, and become allied to unclean spirits, which are for ever separated from him; and then what portion, what inheritance, can they have with God? No unclean thing shall enter into the New Jerusalem, that holy city. (2.) It is a sin that incurs divine vengeance,

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּמֶ֤ה׀	u.Meh	and what?	H4100 →
חֵ֣לֶק	Che.lek	[is] [the] portion of	H2506 →
אֱל֣וֹהַּ	'e.Lo.ah	God	H433 →
מִמָּ֑עַל	mi.Ma.'al	<from> above	H4605 →
וְֽנַחֲלַ֥ת	ve.na.cha.Lat	and [the] inheritance of	H5159 →
שַׁ֝דַּ֗י	Sha.Dai	[the] Almighty	H7706 →
מִמְּרֹמִֽים׃	mi.me.ro.Mim	from high places	H4791 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
leads to
- Genesis 2:24
  For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
- Proverbs 5:15–23
  Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
- 1 Corinthians 7:2–16
  But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
- Galatians 5:19
  The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
- Genesis 1:27–28
  So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Through
Job 20:29
This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”
leads to
- Job 27:13
  This is the wicked man’s portion from God—the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
- Job 31:2–3
  For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?
- Psalms 11:5–6
  The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Job