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Job’s Final Appeal

Job 31:27

In 11 translations

BSB
so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
KJV
And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:my mouth…: Heb. my hand hath kissed my mouth
WEB
and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth;
ASV
And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand:
LSV
And my heart is enticed in secret, || And my hand kisses my mouth,
YLT
And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth,
DBY
And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand:
DRC
And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth:
GNV
If mine heart did flatter me in secrete, or if my mouth did kisse mine hand,
JPS
And my heart hath been secretly enticed, and my mouth hath kissed my hand;
LXXE
and if my heart was secretly deceived, and if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it:

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיִּ֣פְתְּ בַּסֵּ֣תֶר לִבִּ֑י וַתִּשַּׁ֖ק יָדִ֣י לְפִֽי׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ εἰ ἠπατήθη λάθρα ἡ καρδία μου, εἰ δὲ χεῖρά μου ἐπιθεὶς ἐπὶ στόματί μου ἐφίλησα.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Deuteronomy 13:6If 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 11:16But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,
  • Romans 1:21For 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.
  • Isaiah 44:20He 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?”
  • Romans 1:28Furthermore, 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.
  • 1 Kings 19:18Nevertheless, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”
  • Hosea 13:2Now 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!”
  • Psalms 2:12Kiss 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.

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