en_tn_condensed/job/31/34.md

because I feared the great multitude, because the contempt of the families terrified me

This would be the reason for hiding his sins. These two phrases mean the same thing. They emphasize that a person may hide his sin because he fears what other people may think about him. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism)

so that I kept silent and would not go outside)—

The dash at the end of the line is used to show that Job did not finish this sentence.