Job 31:27
and my heart has been secretly enticed,and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
In Context
26if I have seen the sun when it shined,or the moon moving in splendor,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:16Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
1 Kings 19:18Yet will I leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him."
Isaiah 44:20He feeds on ashes.A deceived heart has turned him aside;and he can't deliver his soul,nor say, "Isn't there a lie in my right hand?"
Hosea 13:2Now they sin more and more,and have made themselves molten images of their silver,even idols according to their own understanding,all of them the work of the craftsmen.They say of them, 'They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.'
Romans 1:28Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God abandoned them to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
Matthew Henry on Job 31:25-33
Job's Abhorrence of Idolatry. ( b. c. 1520.) 24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; 25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; 26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: 28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. 29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him… Read the whole commentary →