Job 31:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

The reason of my continency and chastity was, the consideration of God's presence, and providence, and judgments. What portion of God; what fruit or recompence might be expected from God for those who do such things? Nothing but destruction, as it follows, Job 31:3. I considered, that though these practices might at first please me, yet they would be bitterness in the latter end. From above; an emphatical phrase, to note, that how secretly and slily soever unchaste persons carry the matter, so as men cannot reprove or reproach them; yet there is one who stands upon a higher place, whence he hath the better prospect, who seeth both when, and in what manner, and with what design they do these things.

Job 31:2

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