Job 31:23

WEB

²³For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.

KJV

²³For destruction^[+] from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

BSB

²³For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.

FBV

²³Since I'm terrified of what punishment God may have in store for me, and because of his majesty, I could never do this.

Extra References

Job 13:11

¹¹Won’t his majesty make you afraid and his dread fall on you?

Psalms 119:120

¹²⁰My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments. AYIN

2 Corinthians 5:11

¹¹Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

Psalms 76:7

⁷You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

Isaiah 13:6

⁶Wail, for the LORD’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Genesis 39:9

⁹No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

Job 42:5-6

⁵I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you. ⁶Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

Job 21:20

²⁰Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Joel 1:15

¹⁵Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Job 20:23

²³When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.