Job 31:7
If my goings have swerved from the way,—and, after mine eyes, hath gone my heart, and, to my hands, hath adhered any stain,
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
6Let him weigh me in balances of righteousness,—and let GOD take note of mine integrity!
8Let me sow but, another, eat. And let, what I have springing up, be uprooted!
Cross References
Job 9:30Though I bathe myself in snow water, and cleanse, in cleanness itself, my hands,
Job 17:9That the righteous may hold on his way, and, the clean of hands, increase in strength.
Job 27:5Far be it from me! that I should justify, you,—Even until I breathe my last, will I not let go mine integrity from me:
Psalms 7:4If I have requited my friend with wrong,—or have oppressed mine adversary without need,
Psalms 101:3I will not set before mine eyes, a vile thing,—The doing of them who fall away, I hate, It shall not cleave unto me;
Isaiah 33:15He that walketh righteously, And speaketh uprightly,—He that refuseth the gain of exactions That shaketh his hands free from holding a bribe, That stoppeth his ear from hearkening to deeds of blood, And shutteth his eyes from giving countenance to wrong,
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 →