Job Chapter 31 verse 7 Holy Bible
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:
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If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;
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If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;
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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;
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If my step hath turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to my hands;
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If my step has turned out of the way, If my heart walked after my eyes, If any defilement has stuck to my hands,
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If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - If my step hath turned out of the way. If; i.e., I have at any time knowingly and voluntarily departed from the way of thy commandments, as made known to me either by godly men or by thy law written in my heart, then let the consequences follow that are mentioned in the next verse. Or if mine heart hath walked after mine eyes, and if consequently any blot hath cleaved to mine hands; i.e. if I have been guilty of any plain act of sin. It is to be remembered that Job has the testimony of God himself to the fact that he was "a perfect and an upright man, one that feared God, and eschewed evil (Job 2:3).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) If my step hath turned out of the way--The form of the expression is very emphatic: the narrow way of strict integrity and righteousness. (Compare the expression applied to the first believers, Acts 9:2--men of the way.)
