Job 31:7
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;
Bible in Basic English
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In Context
6(Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)
8Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.
Cross References
Job 9:30If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;
Job 17:9Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.
Job 27:5Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness.
Psalms 7:4\7:3\O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;
Psalms 101:3I will not put any evil thing before my eyes; I am against all turning to one side; I will not have it near me.
Isaiah 33:15He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against 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 →