Job 31:7
If my step turns aside from the way, || And my heart has gone after my eyes, || And blemish has cleaved to my hands,
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In Context
6He weighs me in righteous balances, || And God knows my integrity.
8Let me sow—and another eat, || And let my products be rooted out.
Cross References
Job 9:30If I have washed myself with snow-water, || And purified my hands with soap,
Job 17:9And the righteous lays hold [on] his way, || And the clean of hands adds strength.
Job 27:5Defilement to me—if I justify you, || Until I expire I do not turn aside my integrity from me.
Psalms 7:4If I have done my well-wisher evil, || And draw my adversary without cause,
Psalms 101:3I do not set a worthless thing before my eyes, || I have hated the work of those turning aside, || It does not adhere to me.
Isaiah 33:15Whoever is walking righteously, || And is speaking uprightly, || Kicking against gain of oppressions, || Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, || Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, || And shutting his eyes from looking on 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 →