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Job 31:7
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If my step has turned from the way,my heart has followed my eyes,or impurity has stained my hands,
If my step has turned out of the way, If my heart walked after my eyes, If any defilement has stuck to my hands,
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
if my step has turned aside from the way and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has stuck to my hands,
If I have turned away from doing what is right, or my heart has been led by my eyes to do wrong, or my hands have been made unclean,
If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,
"If my step has turned away from the way [of God], Or if my heart has [covetously] followed my eyes, Or if any spot [of guilt] has stained my hands,
"If my step has turned from the way, Or my heart followed my eyes, Or if any spot has stuck to my hands,
If my step has turned out of the way, If my heart walked after my eyes, If any defilement has stuck to my hands,
If my steppe hath turned out of the way, or mine heart hath walked after mine eye, or if any blot hath cleaued to mine handes,
If my step has turned from the way,Or my heart followed my eyes,Or if any spot has stuck to my hands,
If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or impurity has stuck to my hands,
"If my steps have wandered from the way, if my heart has followed my eyes, if the least dirt has stuck to my hands;
If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;
If I ever stepped off the right path, if my eyes led my heart to do evil, or if my hands are dirty with sin,
I have not turned aside my steps from the way, and my heart has not followed after my eyes, and I have acquired nothing unjustly;
If I have turned from the right path or let myself be attracted to evil, if my hands are stained with sin,
If my steps have turned aside from the way, and my heart has walked after my eyes, and my hand has clung to a spot,
If my step has turned aside out of the way, or my heart has walked after my eyes, and if any blot has held fast to my hands,
Yf so be that I haue withdrawen my fote out of the right waye, yf my hert hath folowed myne eyesight, yf I haue stayned or defyled my hodes:
If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands:
If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;
If my step hath turned out of the way,
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaued to my hands:
If my steppe hath turned out of the way, & myne heart walked after myne eyes, and if any blot haue cleaued to my handes:
if my foot has turned aside out of the way, or if mine heart has followed mine eye, and if too I have touched gifts with my hands;
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any spot hath cleaved to mine hands:
If my step bowide fro the weie; if myn iye suede myn herte, and a spotte cleuede to myn hondis;
If my step has turned out of the way, And my heart walked after my eyes, And if any spot has cleaved to my hands:
If my step hath turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to my hands;
If my step has turned from the way, Or my heart walked after my eyes, Or if any spot adheres to my hands,
If I have strayed from his pathway, or if my heart has lusted for what my eyes have seen, or if I am guilty of any other sin,
If my step has turned from the way, and my heart has followed my eyes, or if my hands have held on to sin,
if my step has turned aside from the way, and my heart has followed my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands;
If my goings have swerved from the way, - and, after mine eyes, hath gone my heart, and, to my hands, hath adhered any stain,
If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:
if my step has turned aside from the way, and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has cleaved to my hands;
If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,
"If my step has turned from the way, Or my heart followed my eyes, Or if any spot has stuck to my hands,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
If my: Psalms 44:20, Psalms 44:21
mine heart: Numbers 15:39, Ecclesiastes 11:9, Ezekiel 6:9, Ezekiel 14:3, Ezekiel 14:7, Matthew 5:29
cleaved: Psalms 101:3, Isaiah 33:15
Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 6:9 - wandering of the desire Jeremiah 22:17 - thine eyes Ephesians 2:2 - in time 2 Peter 2:14 - eyes
Cross-References
God spoke to Abimelech in another dream and said: I know you are innocent. That's why I kept you from sleeping with Sarah and doing anything wrong.
Rachel and Leah said to Jacob: There's nothing left for us to inherit from our father.
He treats us like foreigners and has even cheated us out of the bride price that should have been ours.
I could easily hurt you, but the God your father worshiped has warned me not to make any threats or promises.
I had to work fourteen of these twenty long years to earn your two daughters and another six years to buy your sheep and goats. During that time you kept changing my wages.
You will have such a shortage of bread, that ten women will be able to bake their bread in the same oven. Each of you will get only a few crumbs, and you will go hungry.
I swear that not one of these Israelites will enter the land I promised to give their ancestors. These people have seen my power in Egypt and in the desert, but they will never see Canaan. They have disobeyed and tested me too many times.
On at least ten different occasions, the Jews living near our enemies warned us against attacks from every side,
"You are like a wall protecting not only him, but his entire family and all his property. You make him successful in whatever he does, and his flocks and herds are everywhere.
Isn't ten times enough for you to accuse me? Aren't you ashamed?
Gill's Notes on the Bible
If my step hath turned out of the way,.... The way of God, the way of his commandments, the good and right way, the way of truth and righteousness, so far as Job had knowledge of it: for, besides the law and light of nature the Gentiles had in common, good men had some revelation, and notions of the mind and will of God unto them, both before and after the flood, previous to the Mosaic dispensation; which in some measure directed them what way to walk in, with respect to worship and duty; and from this way Job swerved not; not that he walked so perfectly in it as to be free from sin, and never commit any; or that he never took a step out of the way, or stepped awry; but he did not knowingly, wittingly, and purposely turn out of the way; and when, through infirmity of the flesh, the temptations of Satan, and snares of the world, he was drawn aside, he did not obstinately and finally persist therein; though this may have respect not to sin in general, but to the particular sin he is clearing himself from, namely, dealing falsely and deceitfully with men, in whatsoever he had to do with them, in matters of "meum" and "tuum"; or with regard to the rules of justice and equity between man and man, he was not conscious to himself he had departed from them; a like expression to those in Psalms 7:3, where some particular sin is referred unto:
and mine heart walked after mine eyes; meaning not in the lust of uncleanness, of which he had spoken before, as such do whose eyes are full of adultery; but in the sin of covetousness, so Achan's heart walked after his eyes, Joshua 7:20; and this is one of the three things the world is full of, and the men of it indulge themselves in, the lust of the eyes, 1 John 2:16; the sense is, that when he saw the riches and wealth of others, he did not covet them, nor take any illicit methods to get them out of their hands; or, when he saw the goods they were possessed of, and had with them to dispose of, he did not take the advantage of their ignorance, or use any evil ways and means to cheat and beguile them of them: it is pleasing to the flesh for the heart to walk after the eye, or to indulge to that which it is taken with; but it is very vain and foolish, as well as very dangerous so to do, Ecclesiastes 2:10; a good man chooses a better guide than his eyes; even to be a follower of God, to tread in the steps of his living Redeemer, to walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit, and according to the law and will of God:
and if any blot cleaved to my hands; any spot, stain, or blemish, as all sin is of a defiling nature, particularly the hands may be blotted by shedding innocent blood, by taking bribes to pervert judgment; which the Septuagint version directs to here; and by getting, holding, and retaining mammon of unrighteousness, or ill gotten goods; which is what is chiefly if not solely intended here; for it may be rendered, "if any thing hath cleaved", c. so Aben Ezra and Ben Gersom for the word signifies both a "blot" and "anything": and the Targum takes in both senses: the meaning seems to be, that there was not anything of another man's in his hands, which he had taken from him by force and violence, or find obtained by any deceitful methods, and which he held fast, and it stuck with him as pitch to the hands, and he did not care to part with it, or restore it, whereby his hands were defiled; otherwise Job had no such opinion of the cleanness of his hands and actions, as if he thought there was no spot of sin in them, or only such as he could wash out himself; he clearly speaks the contrary, Job 9:30; which is the sense of every good man, who, conscious of his spots and blemishes, washes his hands, his actions, his conversation garments, and makes them white in the blood of the Lamb; and such, and such only, have clean hands.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
If my step hath turned out of the way - The path in which I ought to walk - the path of virtue.
And mine heart walked after mine eyes - That is, if I have coveted what my eyes have beheld; or if I have been determined by the appearance of things rather than by what is right, I consent to bear the appropriate punishment.
And if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands - To have clean hands is emblematic of innocence; Job 17:9; Psalms 24:4; compare Matthew 27:24. The word blot here means stain, blemish: Daniel 1:4. The idea is, that his hands were pure, and that he had not been guilty of any act of fraud or violence in depriving others of their property.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 31:7. If my step hath turned out of the way — I am willing to be sifted to the uttermost-for every step of my foot, for every thought of my heart, for every look of mine eye, and for every act of my hands.
