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Job 31

Job 31:29 KJV (With Strong’s)

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If I rejoiced
samach (Hebrew #8055)
probably to brighten up, i.e. (figuratively) be (causatively, make) blithe or gleesome
KJV usage: cheer up, be (make) glad, (have, make) joy(-ful), be (make) merry, (cause to, make to) rejoice, X very.
Pronounce: saw-makh'
Origin: a primitive root
at the destruction
piyd (Hebrew #6365)
(figuratively) misfortune
KJV usage: destruction, ruin.
Pronounce: peed
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to pierce
of him that hated
sane' (Hebrew #8130)
to hate (personally)
KJV usage: enemy, foe, (be) hate(-ful, -r), odious, X utterly.
Pronounce: saw-nay'
Origin: a primitive root
me, or lifted up
`uwr (Hebrew #5782)
to wake (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: (a- )wake(-n, up), lift up (self), X master, raise (up), stir up (self).
Pronounce: oor
Origin: a primitive root (rather identical with 5783 through the idea of opening the eyes)
myself when evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
found
matsa' (Hebrew #4672)
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
KJV usage: + be able, befall, being, catch, X certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), X have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-)on, meet (with), X occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
Pronounce: maw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
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Ministry on This Verse

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2 Sam. 1:12• 12And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Jehovah, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword. (2 Sam. 1:12)
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2 Sam. 4:10‑11• 10when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:
 11how much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? Shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth? (2 Sam. 4:10‑11)
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2 Sam. 16:5‑8• 5And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out from thence a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed,
 6and cast stones at David, and at all the servants of King David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
 7And thus said Shimei as he cursed: Away, away, thou man of blood and man of Belial!
 8Jehovah has returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and Jehovah has given the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son; and behold, thou art taken in thine own evil, for thou art a man of blood. (2 Sam. 16:5‑8)
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Psa. 35:13‑14,25‑26• 13But as for me, when they were sick, my garment [was] sackcloth:{HR}I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returneth into my bosom.
 14As if [he were] a neighbour, as if a brother to me,{HR}I have acted; like the mourning of a mother, mourning, I bowed down.
 25Let them not say in their heart, Aha, our soul!{HR}Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
 26They shall be ashamed and confounded together who rejoice at my hurt;{HR}They shall be clothed with shame and reproach who magnify themselves against me. (Psa. 35:13‑14,25‑26)
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Prov. 17:5• 5Whoso mocketh a poor [man] reproacheth his Maker;{HR}He that is glad at calamity shall not be held innocent. (Prov. 17:5)
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Prov. 24:17‑18• 17Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth,{HR}And let not thy heart be glad when he stumbleth;
 18Lest Jehovah see [it], and it be evil in his sight,{HR}And he turn away his anger from him. (Prov. 24:17‑18)
• Friendship and hospitality (vers. 29-32). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)
• {v.29-30} Here he declares that even to his enemies he had been just. He had not been glad at their calamity, nor even in secret wished a curse to blight their life. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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Or "that."

W. Kelly Translation

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If I rejoiced over the ruin of my hater,{HR}And got uplifted when evil found him;—