Job 31:7

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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;

Literal

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,

Latin

Si declinavit gressus meus de via, et si secutum est oculos meos cor meum, et si manibus meis adhæsit macula,

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Job 31:5–8

If Job had lied in a business deal, it would violate the eighth commandment (Deuteronomy 5:19). If he lied in court, it would violate the ninth commandment (Deuteronomy 5:20). This sin would deserve judgment of fire (Revelation 21:8).
If Job desired his neighbor's possessions, he would violate the tenth commandment (Deuteronomy 5:21).
then may another eat: This was also speaking against himself (a curse).

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 Trialc. 1650 BC

Related verses

Numbers 15:39
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
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 judgment.
Matthew 5:29
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.
Psalm 101:3
I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
Job 23:11
My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.
Psalm 44:20–21
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
Ezekiel 14:3
“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 6:9
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 will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.
Ezekiel 14:7
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 LORD will answer him Myself.
Isaiah 33:15
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—
Job 9:30
If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

Glossary

Adultery Book of Job Curse, Cursed

Topics

Integrity: General Scriptures Concerning Temptation: Resistance To

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