Job 31:25
Good News Translation
or taken pride in my wealth.

New Revised Standard Version
if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, or because my hand had gotten much;

Contemporary English Version
or taken pride in owning many possessions. *

New American Bible
Or had I rejoiced that my wealth was great, or that my hand had acquired abundance—

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.

rejoiced

Esther 5:11 And he declared to them the greatness of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and with how great glory the king had advanced him above all his princes and servants.

Proverbs 23:5 Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.

Jeremiah 9:23 Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man glory in his riches:

Ezekiel 28:5 By the greatness of thy wisdom, and by thy traffic thou hast increased thy strength: and thy heart is lifted up with thy strength.

Luke 12:19 And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer.

Luke 16:19,25 There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day. . . .

because

Deuteronomy 8:17,18 Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: My own might, and the strength of my own hand have achieved all these things for me. . . .

Isaiah 10:13,14 For he hath said: By the strength of my own hand I have done it, and by my own wisdom I have understood: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have taken the spoils of the princes, and as a mighty man hath pulled down them that sat on high. . . .

Daniel 4:30 The same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor, and he was driven away from among men, and did eat grass, like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles, and his nails like birds' claws.

Hosea 12:8 And Ephraim said: But yet I am become rich, I have found me an idol: all my labours shall not find me the iniquity that I have committed.

Habakkuk 1:16 Therefore will he offer victims to his drag, and he will sacrifice to his net: because through them his portion is made fat, and his meat dainty.

gotten much.

Context
Job's Final Appeal
24If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence: 25If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.26If I beheld the sun when it shined and the moon going in brightness:…
Cross References
Job 1:3
And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a family exceedingly great: and this man was great among all the people of the east.

Job 1:10
Hast thou not made a fence for him, and his house, and all his substance round about, blessed the works of his hands, and his possession hath increased on the earth?

Job 22:24
He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.

Psalm 62:10
Trust not in iniquity, and covet not robberies: if riches abound, set not your heart upon them.

Isaiah 39:2
And Ezechias rejoiced at their coming, and he shewed them the storehouses of his aromatical spices, and of the silver, and of the gold, and of the sweet odours, and of the precious ointment, and all the storehouses of his furniture, and all things that were found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion that Ezechias shewed them not.

Jeremiah 9:23
Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man glory in his riches:

Ezekiel 28:5
By the greatness of thy wisdom, and by thy traffic thou hast increased thy strength: and thy heart is lifted up with thy strength.

Job 31:24
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