Job 31:28

"and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth;"

Key Reflection

In Job 31:28, the verse suggests that even in his distress, Job acknowledges the possibility of hidden sin within himself, where his heart might have secretly desired something it should not. This momentary enticement is followed by a physical expression—his hand making a kiss from his mouth—which symbolizes a fleeting desire to do what is wrong, yet the act itself reveals and repents of that temptation.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judqe -NoteJob 31:11. Among the Hebrews idolatry was an offence punishable by death by stoning;Deuteronomy 17:2-7. It is possible, also, that this might have been elsewhere in the patriarchal times a crime punishable in this manner. At all events, Job regarded it as a heinous offence, and one of which the magistrate ought to take cognizance. For I should have denied the God that is above -The worship of the heavenly bodies would have been in fact the denial of the existence of any Superior Being.

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