Job 31:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,”
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“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 · Public Domain (CC0)“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;”
King James Version · Public Domain“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:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 31:7 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 15:39These 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.
- Job 9:30If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
- Job 16:17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
- Job 17:9Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
- Job 23:11My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.
- Job 27:5I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die.
- Job 27:6I will cling to my righteousness and never let go. As long as I live, my conscience will not accuse me.
- Psalms 7:4if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,
- Psalms 44:20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
- Psalms 101:3I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
- Ecclesiastes 11:9Rejoice, 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.
- Isaiah 33:15He 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—
- Ezekiel 6:9Then 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 14:3“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 14:7For 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.
- Matthew 5:29If 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.
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