Job 31:7
If my step has turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot has cleaved to mine hands;
Updated King James Version
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In Context
6Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
8Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
Cross References
Job 9:30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Job 17:9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Job 27:5God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
Psalms 7:4If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
Psalms 101:3I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
Isaiah 33:15He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that shakes his hands from holding of bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing 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 →