KJV 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;
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Job 31:7
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;
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,
WEB 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,
ASV 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:
YLT 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,
Surrounding context — Job 31
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 turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
8 [Then] let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or [if] I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;
10 [Then] let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אִ֥םH518 · imifתִּטֶּ֣הH5186 · na.tahto stretchאַשֻּׁרִי֮H838 · a.shurstepמִנִּ֪יH4480 · minfromהַ֫דָּ֥רֶךְH1870 · de.rekhway: conductוְאַחַ֣רH310 · a.charafterעֵ֭ינַיH5869 · a.yineyeהָלַ֣ךְH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentלִבִּ֑יH3820 · levheartוּ֝בְכַפַּ֗יH3709 · kaphpalmדָּ֣בַקH1692 · da.vaqto cleaveמֻאֽוּם׃ פH3971 · m.umblemish
Cross-references
Numbers 15:39And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:Ecclesiastes 11:9Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these [things] God will bring thee into judgment.Matthew 5:29And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast [it] from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not [that] thy whole body should be cast into hell.Ezekiel 6:9And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.Psalm 44:20-21If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;Job 23:11My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.Ezekiel 14:3Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?Psalm 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.Ezekiel 14:7For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:Isaiah 33:15He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;Job 9:30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
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