Job 31:37
I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.)—
BSB
ASV
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near unto him.
KJV
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
A good conscience imparts a princely dignity before man and free assurance in approaching God. This can be realized, not in Job's way (Job 42:5, 6); but only through Jesus Christ (Heb 10:22).
He will give them a narrative of his conversation, what would make against him as well as what would make for him, and let them make what use they pleased of it; and so confident he is of his integrity that as a prince to be crowned, rather than a prisoner to be tried, he would go near to him, both to his accuser to hear his charge and to his judge to hear his doom.
But an upright heart does particularly desire to be determined in every thing by the judgment of God, which we are sure is according to the truth. It was holy David's prayer, Search me, O God! and know my heart; and it was blessed Paul's comfort, He that judgeth me is the Lord.
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 walk8
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
Job 13:15Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
leads to
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.
Through
Ephesians 3:12In Him and through faith in Him we may enter God’s presence with boldness and confidence.
leads to
For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess.