Job 31:7
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
Job 31:7 in other translations
| BSB | If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands, |
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| WEB | if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands, |
| ASV | If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands: |
| YLT | If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish, |
| DARBY | If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands; |
| BBE | If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands; |
| Webster | If my step hath turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to my hands; |
What does Job 31:7 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 31:1-8
Job did not speak the things here recorded by way of boasting, but in answer to the charge of hypocrisy. He understood the spiritual nature of God's commandments, as reaching to the thoughts and intents of the heart. It is best to let our actions speak for us; but in some cases we owe it to ourselves and to the cause of God, solemnly to protest our innocence of the crimes of which we are falsely accused. The lusts…
Job 31:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 31:7
- Numbers 15:39
And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
- Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
- Matthew 5:29
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
- Job 23:11
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
- Psalms 44:20-21
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
- Psalms 101:3
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
- Ezekiel 14:3
Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
- Isaiah 33:15
He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
- Ezekiel 6:9
And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
- Ezekiel 14:7
For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the Lord will answer him by myself:
- Job 9:30
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
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Context
- Job 31:6
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
- Job 31:7
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
- Job 31:8
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
Job 31:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Si mis pasos se apartaron del camino, y si mi corazón se fué tras mis ojos, y si algo se apegó á mis manos, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Si mon pas s’est détourné du chemin, et si mon cœur a suivi mes yeux, et si quelque souillure s’est attachée à ma main, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | wenn mein Schritt von dem Wege abgebogen, und mein Herz meinen Augen gefolgt ist, und an meinen Händen ein Makel kleben blieb: |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Si declinavit gressus meus de via, et si secutum est oculos meos cor meum, et si manibus meis adhæsit macula, |