Job 31:7
if my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
6(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
8then let me sow, and let another eat, yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
Cross References
Job 9:30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,
Job 17:9Yet the righteous shall hold on his way. And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
Job 27:5Far be it from me that I should justify you. Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
Psalms 7:4if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me, (yea, I have delivered him without cause who was my adversary),
Psalms 101:3I will set no base thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who turn aside. It shall not cleave to me.
Isaiah 33:15He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly. He who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:2-9
Job's Vindication of Himself. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? 2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? 3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? 4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? 5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; 6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. 7 If my step hath… Read the whole commentary →