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Job 31:2

Job 31:2 is verse 2 of Job chapter 31, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?

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King James Version

For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

World English Bible

For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

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Job 31:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 “I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

2 For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?

3 Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

4 Does He not see my ways and count my every step?

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 20:29

This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”

Job 27:13

This is the wicked man’s portion from God— the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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