Job 31:27 “so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my…”

Job 31:27

so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

World English Bible

and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth;

American Standard Version

And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand:

Geneva Bible 1599

If mine heart did flatter me in secrete, or if my mouth did kisse mine hand,

Darby Translation

And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand:

Young's Literal Translation

And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth,

Bible in Basic English

A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;

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Cross references

“my heart”

Deuteronomy 13:6 Deuteronomy 11:16 Isaiah 44:20 Romans 1:21 Romans 1:28

Deuteronomy 13:6 · BSB

If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,

Deuteronomy 11:16 · BSB

But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,

Isaiah 44:20 · BSB

He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

Romans 1:21 · BSB

For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

Romans 1:28 · BSB

Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

“my mouth hath kissed my hand”

1 Kings 19:18 Psalm 2:12 Hosea 13:2

1 Kings 19:18 · BSB

Nevertheless, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”

Psalm 2:12 · BSB

Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish in your rebellion, when His wrath ignites in an instant. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.

Hosea 13:2 · BSB

Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

26if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

28this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.

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