Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“If my step has turned from the way,
Or my heart followed my eyes,
Or if any spot has stuck to my hands,

King James Version

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;

Holman Bible

If my step has turned from the way,
my heart has followed my eyes,
or impurity has stained my hands,

International Standard Version

If I have stepped away from the way, or if my heart covets whatever my eyes see, or if some other blemish clings to my hands,

A Conservative Version

if my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands,

American Standard Version

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:

Amplified


“If my step has turned away from the way [of God],
Or if my heart has [covetously] followed my eyes,
Or if any spot [of guilt] has stained my hands,

Bible in Basic English

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;

Darby Translation

If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;

Julia Smith Translation

If my going will incline from the way, and my heart went after mine eyes, and a blemish did cleave upon my hands:

King James 2000

If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any spot has cleaved to my hands;

Lexham Expanded Bible

If my steps have turned aside from the way, and my heart has walked after my eyes, and my hand has clung to a spot,

Modern King James verseion

If my step has turned out of the way, or my heart has walked after my eyes, and if any blot has held fast to my hands;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If so be that I have withdrawn my foot out of the right way, if my heart hath followed mine eyesight, if I have stained or defiled my hands,

NET Bible

If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,

New Heart English Bible

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

The Emphasized Bible

If my goings have swerved from the way, - and, after mine eyes, hath gone my heart, and, to my hands, hath adhered any stain,

Webster

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;

World English Bible

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

Youngs Literal Translation

If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If my step
אשּׁר אשׁר 
'ashur 
Usage: 9

of the way
דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

הלך 
Halak 
go, walk, come, ...away, ...along,
Usage: 1545

אחר 
'achar 
Usage: 488

and if any blot
מוּם מאוּם 
M'uwm 
Usage: 21

References

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense Continued

6 Let Him weigh me with accurate scales,
And let God know my integrity.
7 “If my step has turned from the way,
Or my heart followed my eyes,
Or if any spot has stuck to my hands,
8 Let me sow and another eat,
And let my crops be uprooted.

Cross References

Numbers 15:39

It shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, so as to do them and not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot,

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.

Job 9:30

“If I should wash myself with snow
And cleanse my hands with lye,

Job 23:11

“My foot has held fast to His path;
I have kept His way and not turned aside.

Psalm 44:20-21

If we had forgotten the name of our God
Or extended our hands to a strange god,

Psalm 101:3

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes;
I hate the work of those who fall away;
It shall not fasten its grip on me.

Isaiah 33:15

He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity,
He who rejects unjust gain
And shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe;
He who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed
And shuts his eyes from looking upon evil;

Ezekiel 6:9

Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations to which they will be carried captive, how I have been hurt by their adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by their eyes which played the harlot after their idols; and they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed, for all their abominations.

Ezekiel 14:3

“Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts and have put right before their faces the stumbling block of their iniquity. Should I be consulted by them at all?

Ezekiel 14:7

For anyone of the house of Israel or of the immigrants who stay in Israel who separates himself from Me, sets up his idols in his heart, puts right before his face the stumbling block of his iniquity, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me for himself, I the Lord will be brought to answer him in My own person.

Matthew 5:29

If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

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