33 Have I (A)covered my wrongdoings like a man,
By hiding my guilt in my shirt pocket,
34 Because I (B)feared the great multitude
And the contempt of families terrified me,
And I kept silent and did not go out of doors?

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No Secret Sins

33 “Have I covered my transgression like other people,
    to conceal iniquity within myself?[a]
34 Have I feared large crowds?
    Has my family’s contempt ever terrified me
        so that I remained silent and wouldn’t go outside?”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:33 Or bosom