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;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
6Let me be weighed in a just 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 the righteous holdeth on his way, and he that hath clean hands waxeth 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 7:4(7-5) If I have requited him that did evil unto me, or spoiled mine adversary unto emptiness;
Psalms 101:3I will set no base thing before mine eyes; I hate the doing of things crooked; 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 holding of bribes, 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 →