Job 31:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

The Mosaic law embodied subsequently the feeling of the godly from the earliest times against idolatry, as deserving judicial penalties: being treason against the Supreme King (Deuteronomy 13:9; Deuteronomy 17:2-7; Ezekiel 8:14-18). This passage therefore does not prove Job to have been subsequent to Moses.

Job 31:28

28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.