Job 31:7
Good News Translation
If I have turned from the right path or let myself be attracted to evil, if my hands are stained with sin,

New Revised Standard Version
if my step has turned aside from the way, and my heart has followed my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands;

Contemporary English Version
If I have disobeyed him or even wanted to,

New American Bible
If my steps have turned out of the way, and my heart has followed my eyes, or any stain clings to my hands,

Douay-Rheims Bible
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:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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:

If my

Psalm 44:20,21 For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the shadow of death hath covered us. . . .

mine heart

Numbers 15:39 That when they shall see them, they may remember all the commandments of the Lord, and not follow their own thoughts and eyes going astray after divers things,

Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice therefore, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart be in that which is good in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thy eyes: and know that for all these God will bring thee into judgment.

Ezekiel 6:9 And they that are saved of you shall remember me amongst the nations, to which they are carried captives: because I have broken their heart that was faithless, and revolted from me: and their eyes that went a fornicating after their idols: and they shall be displeased with themselves because of the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Ezekiel 14:3,7 Son of man, these men have placed their uncleannesses in their hearts, and have set up before their face the stumblingblock of their iniquity: and shall I answer when they inquire of me? . . .

Matthew 5:29 And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee. For it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than thy whole body be cast into hell.

cleaved

Psalm 101:3 I will not set before my eyes any unjust thing: I hated the workers of iniquities.

Isaiah 33:15 He that walketh in justices, and speaketh truth, that casteth away avarice by oppression, and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that stoppeth his ears lest he hear blood, and shutteth his eyes that he may see no evil.

Context
Job's Final Appeal
6Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity. 7If 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:8Then let me sow and let another reap: and let my offspring be rooted out.…
Cross References
Job 9:30
If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean:

Job 17:9
And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Job 23:11
My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have not declined from it.

Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice therefore, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart be in that which is good in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thy eyes: and know that for all these God will bring thee into judgment.

Job 31:6
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