The Pulpit Commentary on Job 31:25

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much. Job feels that it is wrong even to care greatly for wealth. He seems almost to anticipate the saying of St. Paul, that "covetousness is idolatry" (Colossians 3:5); and hence he passes on without pause from this sort of creature-worship to others common in his day (verses 26, 27).

which he likewise disclaims.

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