Job 31:7
If I have wandered from God's way, if I have let what I see become my desires, if there's any stain of sin on my hands,
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6No! Let God weigh me on the scales of his justice and let him discover my integrity.
8then let someone else eat what I have sown, and all that I have grown be uprooted.
Cross References
Job 9:30Even if I wash myself with pure mountain water and clean my hands with soap,
Job 17:9Those who are right keep going, and those whose hands are clean grow stronger and stronger.
Job 27:5I will never agree that you are right; I will insist on my innocence until the day I die.
Psalms 7:4If I have paid back a friend with evil, if I have robbed my enemy for no reason,
Psalms 101:3I will not look at anything evil. I hate doing wrong—I won't have anything to do with it.
Isaiah 33:15Those who live right and speak the truth, those who refuse to profit from extortion and refuse to take bribes, who don't listen to plots to kill people, who close their eyes rather than look at 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 →