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Job’s Final Appeal

Job 31:7

In 11 translations

BSB
If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,
KJV
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;
WEB
if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,
ASV
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:
LSV
If my step turns aside from the way, || And my heart has gone after my eyes, || And blemish has cleaved to my hands,
YLT
If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,
DBY
If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;
DRC
If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:
GNV
If my steppe hath turned out of the way, or mine heart hath walked after mine eye, or if any blot hath cleaued to mine handes,
JPS
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;
LXXE
if my foot has turned aside out of the way, or if mine heart has followed mine eye, and if too I have touched gifts with my hands;

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Original-language editions

WLC
אִ֥ם תִּטֶּ֣ה אַשֻּׁרִי֮ מִנִּ֪י הַ֫דָּ֥רֶךְ וְאַחַ֣ר עֵ֭ינַי הָלַ֣ךְ לִבִּ֑י וּ֝בְכַפַּ֗י דָּ֣בַק מֻאֽוּם׃BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
LXX-Br
Εἰ ἐξέκλινεν ὁ πούς μου ἐκ τῆς ὁδοῦ, εἰ δὲ καὶ τῷ ὀφθαλμῷ ἐπηκολούθησεν ἡ καρδία μου, εἰ δὲ καὶ ταῖς χερσί μου ἡψάμην δώρων,

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  • 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.
  • 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…
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • 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…
  • Psalms 44:20–21If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
  • Job 23:11My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.
  • 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…
  • 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—
  • Job 9:30If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

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