American Standard Version
"If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom, "
— Job 31:33, American Standard Version
“If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:”
“if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,”
“if I have covered my transgressions as men do, by hiding iniquity in my heart,”
“If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.”
“If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,”
“If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:”
(Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);
If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat?
(The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller);
If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,
Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door—
Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me) Andthat I hadthe indictment which mine adversary hath written!
Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown: