King James Version
Job 31:34 in the King James Version says “Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the d...” — study this verse from Job chapter 31 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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?”
Job 31:34 · KJV
The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller. traveller: or, way
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: as Adam: or, after the manner of men
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?
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. my: or, my sign is that the Almighty will
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“of families”
H4940a family, i.e., circle of relatives; figuratively, a class (of persons), a species (of animals) or sort (of things); by extension a tribe or people
“terrify”
H2865properly, to prostrate; hence, to break down, either (literally) by violence, or (figuratively) by confusion and fear
“me that I kept silence”
H1826to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“and went not out”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
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