Job 31:7

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.

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;

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,
KJV: 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;
WEB: 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: 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:
DARBY: If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;
BLB: If my step has turned aside from the way, and my heart has walked, following my eyes, and on my palms has stuck a spot,

ÅB: dersom mine skritt har bøyd av fra veien, og mitt hjerte har fulgt mine øyne, og dersom der er noen flekk på mine hender,
OTB: Hvis mitt skritt har veket fra stien,
Eller mitt hjerte har fulgt mine øyne,
Eller noen flekk har klistret seg til mine hender,
B1930: dersom mine skritt har bøid av fra veien, og mitt hjerte har fulgt mine øine, og dersom der er nogen flekk på mine hender,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Numbers 15:39
And 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:
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Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, 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.
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Matthew 5:29
And 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.
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Job 23:11
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
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Psalms 44:20–21
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
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Psalms 101:3
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
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Ezekiel 14:3
Son 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 enquired of at all by them?
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Isaiah 33:15
He 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;
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