Job 31:33 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

If I covered my transgressions as Adam— This passage contains an allusion to one circumstance in the history of the fall. Among the particulars wherein Job vindicates his integrity, one is, that he was ever ready to acknowledge his errors. The allusion to Adam's hiding himself is proper and apposite; but if you render the passage agreeably to the marginal reading of our English Bible, after the manner of men, it becomes an accusation of others; and the vindication of himself has in it a mixture of pride which does not suit the character of the speaker. See Sherlock on Prophesy, p. 212.