Job 31:24-34

Fourth strophe Job declares himself to have discharged his more secret and private obligations to God and man. He was not only free from covetous extortion, as he had previously declared, (Job 31:21,) but also from avaricious idolatry of glittering wealth and a concealed adoration of the most conspicuous of the heavenly bodies. Nor had he cherished emotions of retaliation and revenge, nor neglected the rites of hospitality, nor in general laid claim to virtues which he possessed not, Job 31:24-34.

Dillmann and others make the fourth strophe end with Job 31:32; Hengstenberg continues it to Job 31:34, and calls it a new decalogue of trespasses with an appended curse. The strophe divides itself into halves the first, treating of sin directly against God; the second, of sin against man.