I ¹  have not even permitted my mouth ²  to sin by asking ³  for his life through a curse –

biblegateway Job 31:30

"No, I have not allowed my mouth to sin By asking for his life in a curse.

I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse.

(even though I didn’t speak sinfully by calling down a curse on his life)….

biblegateway Job 31:30

I have not allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse against his life—

(I have not let my mouth sin by asking for his life with a curse),

bibleoremus Job 31:30

I have not let my mouth sin by asking for their lives with a curse—

even though I did not allow my tongue to sin by laying his life under a curse?

biblegateway Job 31:30

(Indeed I have not allowed my mouth to sin By asking for a curse on his soul);

Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

biblegateway Job 31:30

I ¹  have not even permitted my mouth ²  to sin by asking ³  for his life through a curse –

¹ tn This verse would then be a parenthesis in which he stops to claim his innocence.

² tn Heb “I have not given my palate.”

³ tn The infinitive construct with the ל (lamed) preposition (“by asking”) serves in an epexegetical capacity here, explaining the verb of the first colon (“permitted…to sin”). To seek a curse on anyone would be a sin.