Job 31:29

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

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

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.

GNV

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

JPS

If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or exulted when evil found him —

LXXE

And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies, and mine heart said, Aha!

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WLC

אִם־אֶ֭שְׂמַח בְּפִ֣יד מְשַׂנְאִ֑י וְ֝הִתְעֹרַ֗רְתִּי כִּֽי־מְצָ֥אוֹ רָֽע׃

LXX-Br

Εἰ δὲ καὶ ἐπιχαρὴς ἐγενόμην πτώματι ἐχθρῶν μου, καὶ εἶπεν ἡ καρδία μου, εὖγε.

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• Proverbs 24:17–18Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles, or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him.
• Proverbs 17:5He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.
• Psalms 35:13–14Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered. I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.
• Obadiah 1:12But 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.
• Psalms 35:25–26Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up!” May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be…
• 2 Samuel 16:5–8As 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. He threw stones at David and at all…
• 2 Samuel 4:10–11when 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! How much more, when wicked men kill a righteous man…
• 2 Samuel 1:12They 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.

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