Job 31:7
If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
6(Let me be weighed in an even balance, and God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)
8Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.
Cross References
Job 9:30If I washed myself with snow-water, and cleansed my hands in purity,
Job 17:9But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength.
Job 27:5Be it far from me that I should justify you; till I die I will not remove my blamelessness from me.
Psalms 7:4If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me; (indeed I have freed him that without cause oppressed me;)
Psalms 101:3I will set no thing of Belial before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
Isaiah 33:15He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking hold of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing 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 →