Cross references

Job 31:29

If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin,

or exulted when evil befell him—

Job 31:29 BSB

Job 31:29 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 24:17–18 (10 votes) and Proverbs 17:5 (9 votes). 22 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Genesis 44 to 1 Thessalonians 2.

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Which verses does Job 31:29 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles, or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him.

  2. He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.

  3. Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered. I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.

  4. But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.

  5. Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up!” May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.

  6. They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the people of the LORD and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

  7. when someone told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was a bearer of good news, I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was his reward for his news! How much more, when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house and on his own bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth!”

  8. As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the family of the house of Saul was just coming out. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and as he approached, he kept yelling out curses. He threw stones at David and at all the servants of the king, though the troops and all the mighty men were on David’s right and left. …

Which verses point to Job 31:29?

The 10 strongest of 22.