“because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Job 31 contains 40 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.