Job 31:2
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For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?

Job 20:29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.

Job 27:13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Context
Job's Final Appeal
1I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin. 2For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?3Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?…
Cross References
Numbers 16:30
But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord.

Job 16:19
For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high.

Job 20:29
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.

Job 21:17
How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?

Job 25:2
Power and terror are with him, who maketh peace in his high places.

Lexicon
For what [is]
וּמֶ֤ה ׀ (ū·meh)
Conjunctive waw | Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

the allotment
חֵ֣לֶק (ḥê·leq)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2506: Portion, tract, territory

of God
אֱל֣וֹהַּ (’ĕ·lō·w·ah)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 433: God -- a deity, the Deity

from above,
מִמָּ֑עַל (mim·mā·‘al)
Preposition-m | Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 4605: The upper part, with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top

or the heritage
וְֽנַחֲלַ֥ת (wə·na·ḥă·laṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5159: Something inherited, occupancy, an heirloom, an estate, patrimony, portion

from the Almighty
שַׁ֝דַּ֗י (day)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7706: The Almighty

on high?
מִמְּרֹמִֽים׃ (mim·mə·rō·mîm)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4791: Altitude


Additional Translations
For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?

Now what portion has God given from above? and is there an inheritance given of the Mighty One from the highest?

For what would have been [my] portion of +God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?

For what is the portion of God from above, and the heritage of the Almighty from on high?

For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

And what is the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights?
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