Job 31:7
if my foot has turned aside out of the way, or if my heart has followed my eye, and if too I have touched gifts with my hands;
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
6(for I am weighed in a just balance, and the Lord knows my innocence:)
8then let me sow, and let others eat; and let me be uprooted on the earth.
Cross References
Job 9:30For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,
Job 17:9But let the faithful hold on his own way, and let him that is pure of hands take courage.
Job 27:5Far be it from me that I should justify you till I die; for I will not let go my innocence,
Psalms 7:4if I have requited with evil those who requited me with good; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies. 1
Psalms 101:3For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick. 1
Isaiah 33:15He that walks in righteousness, speaking rightly, hating transgression and iniquity, and shaking his hands from gifts, stopping his ears that he should not hear the judgment of blood, shutting his eyes that he should not see injustice.
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 →