Job 31:31

"If the men of my tent have not said,

Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat?

(The sojourner hath not lodged in the street;

But I have opened my doors to the travelers);

If like Adam I have covered my transgressions,

By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

Because I have feared the great multitude,

And the contempt o f families terrified me,

So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door -"

In all of the holy Scriptures there is not a more beautiful portrait of an upright, godly, righteous man than that which reaches a climax in this chapter. Here is the man whom God Himself in the prologue has called, "blameless and upright." "This is a true picture of Job the righteous, the perfect example of Old Testament righteousness for which the Law provided incentive and direction."[21] In the last analysis, Job's friends were silenced; they were unable to deny anything that he had said. Note that he broke off his words at this point and concluded with a paragraph which some of the scholars have, without any authority, relocated earlier in the chapter. It is this writer's opinion that the final paragraph belongs exactly where it is.