Job 31:7
If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,
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In Context
6let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
8then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.
Cross References
Job 9:30If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
Job 17:9Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
Job 27:5I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die.
Psalms 7:4if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,
Psalms 101:3I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
Isaiah 33:15He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against 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 →