Job 31:7 “If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eye…”

Job 31:7

If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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;

World English Bible

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

American Standard Version

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:

Geneva Bible 1599

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,

Darby Translation

If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;

Young's Literal Translation

If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,

Bible in Basic English

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;

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Cross references

“If my”

Psalm 44:20 Psalm 44:21

Psalm 44:20 · BSB

If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

Psalm 44:21 · BSB

would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?

“mine heart”

Numbers 15:39 Ecclesiastes 11:9 Matthew 5:29 Ezekiel 6:9 Ezekiel 14:3 Ezekiel 14:7

Numbers 15:39 · BSB

These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.

Ecclesiastes 11:9 · BSB

Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judg…

Matthew 5:29 · BSB

If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

Ezekiel 6:9 · BSB

Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they…

Ezekiel 14:3 · BSB

“Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their faces. Should I consult with them in any way?

Ezekiel 14:7 · BSB

For when any Israelite or any foreigner dwelling in Israel separates himself from Me, sets up idols in his heart, and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me, I the L…

“cleaved”

Psalm 101:3 Isaiah 33:15

Psalm 101:3 · BSB

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

Isaiah 33:15 · BSB

He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—

Also

Job 23:11 Job 9:30

Job 23:11 · BSB

My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.

Job 9:30 · BSB

If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

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

In context

6let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.

8then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

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