Job 31:7
If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
6Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.
8Then let me sow and let another eat: and let my offspring be rooted out.
Cross References
Job 9:30If I be washed as it were with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean :
Job 17:9And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Job 27:5God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.
Psalms 7:4O Lord my God, if I have done this thing, if there be iniquity in my hands:
Psalms 101:3I did not set before my eyes any unjust thing: I hated the workers of iniquities.
Isaiah 33:15He that walketh in justices, and speaketh truth, that casteth away avarice by oppression, and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that stoppeth his ears lest he hear blood, and shutteth his eyes that he may see no 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 →