Job 31:27

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

…so that my heart has been enticed in secret, and my hand has kissed my mouth,

Latin

…et lætatum est in abscondito cor meum, et osculatus sum manum meam ore meo:

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Job 31:27

My heart was secretly enticed: See 31:9.
threw a kiss from my mouth: Compare 1 Kings 19:18; Hosea 13:2.

Job 31:26–28

The sins of adultery and worshiping the sun and moon had the death penalty (compare 31:1, 9–12). Both were sins that tempted the inner being of a person through the eyes. Judges tried both types of sin in court.

Job 31:1–40

Job called down wrong against himself (curses) if he was guilty of the accusations against him. Apart from mentioning idolatry (worship of false gods), Job spoke about how loyal he was to God by focusing on the second half of the Ten Commandments (31:26–27). The summary of these is: “love your neighbor as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18; Romans 13:9).

Job 29:1–31:40

Job compares his past happiness, honor, and wealth with his current loss of social dignity and divine friendship (chapters 29 and 30). He ends his speech with broad vows of innocence (chapter 31).

Theme notes and profiles

Job’s Innocence

Events

Job's Trial

Related verses

Deuteronomy 13:6
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
But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,
Hosea 13:2
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!”
Romans 1:28
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.
Romans 1:21
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.
1 Kings 19:18
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
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.
Isaiah 44:20
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?”

Glossary

Book of Job Kiss, Kiss of Peace

Topics

Idolatry: Denunciations Against Idolatry: Objects of Sun, Moon, and Stars Idolatry: Objects of, Worshipped by Kissing the Hand to Them Idolatry: Other Customs of Kissing Integrity: General Scriptures Concerning Moon: Worshiped Sun: Worshiped Temptation: Resistance To The Hands: Kissed in Idolatrous Worship

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