Job 31:7
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:
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In Context
6(Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine 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 never so clean;
Job 17:9Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.
Job 27:5Far be it from me that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.
Psalms 7:4If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary;)
Psalms 101:3I will set no base thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; It shall not cleave unto me.
Isaiah 33:15He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking a bribe, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth 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 →