Job 31:7
If my step hath turned out of the derech, 1 and mine lev walked after mine eyes, 1 and if any mum hath cleaved to mine hands, 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
6Let me be weighed in scales of tzedek 1 that Eloah may know mine tom (integrity). 1
8Then let me sow, and let acher (another) eat; 1 yea, let my harvest be uprooted. 1
Cross References
Job 9:30If I wash myself with sheleg (snow), 1 and make my hands clean with lye, 1
Job 17:9The tzaddik also shall hold to his derech, 1 and he whose yadayim are tahor shall grow stronger and stronger. 1
Job 27:5Far be it from me I should justify you; 1 till I die I will not remove 1 mine tom (integrity) from me. 1
Psalms 7:4Hashem Elohai, if I have done this; 1 if there be guilt in my hands; 1
Psalms 101:3I will set no devar beliyya'al 1 before mine eyes; 1 I hate the work of them that fall away; 1 it shall not cleave to me. 1
Isaiah 33:15He that walketh in tzedakot, and speaketh meisharim (right things), 1 he that despiseth the gain of extortions, 1 that guards his palms from accepting shochad (bribe[s]), 1 that stoppeth his ozen from hearing of dahm, 1 and shutteth his eynayim from seeing rah; 1
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 →