Job 31:30

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

Ex 23:4,5; Ec 5:2,6; Mt 5:22; Mt 5:43,44; Mt 12:36; Ro 12:14; Jas 3:6,9,10; 1Pe 2:22,23; 1Pe 3:9

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.