Job 31:33 says, If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:  Job again denies the sins that his friends had accused him of.  Job said that unlike Adam he had not attempted to hide his sins from God.  We know that Adam first tried to hide from God, and when that did not work, he tried to blame Eve, and then God Himself, for his sins.  I believe that Job was not saying that he had never sinned, or transgressed against God, but that when he did, he accepted responsibility for his sin.  We cannot hope to have our sins forgiven if we don't confess them to God, and sometimes even to those around us.  I do not believe that it is enough to say that our sins are already forgiven through our faith in Christ so we do not have to be concerned with them.  We need to always be ready to confess our sins, even after salvation.  Unconfessed sin will always stand between a right relationship with God and us.  We, like Job, need to never attempt to hide our sins from God nor blame them on others.  In verse thirty- four Job asks, Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door? Job really asked this as a rhetorical question.   His friends had accused him of acting in fear, but Job asked when this had happened.  Job said that he was not afraid of the multitudes and did not allow them to silence his witness for God.  Even if the whole world seems to turn against God, and therefore us as His followers, we cannot allow fear to silence us.  In verse thirty-five Job pleads, Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.  Job's greatest concern had always been that he had been abandoned by God.  He sincerely desired an answer from God, and he felt he wasn't getting it.  Just because God had yet to answer Job in the way Job felt He should did not mean that God did not hear His prayers.  We today may also feel that God is not listening when our prayers are not immediately answered in the way we want them to be. We can be assured that as followers of Christ, God not only hears but the Holy Spirit makes intercession for us, often before we even know what to pray.  We must never let our condition in the world to cause us to doubt God.  In verse thirty-six Job declares, Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.  Job said that if God answered him, that he would bind himself up in that answer and that it would be like a crown in his life.  Job was not speaking of the things of this world being a crown of success in his life, but of his relationship with God being restored.  In verse thirty-seven Job continues, I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.  Job said that if God would answer him, that he would follow God with every step he took, which he felt he had always tried to do.  Verse thirty one continues, If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;  Job felt that if he had done the things he was accused of that the land itself would have cried against him.  Verse thirty nine states,  If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:  I believe that Job was asking anyone who could prove that he had cheated them and not just make the claim to speak out.  Then, in verse forty Job declares, Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.  I believe that Job was saying that if he had done the things his friends had accused him of that he deserved to suffer.  What we must remember is that our relationship to God can never be based on material things, which Job's friends were claiming.  Job had stated his case, and now he had no more to say in his defense.  We also must ultimately quit attempting to prove our worthiness before God and simply rest assured in our faith.