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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,
New American Standard Bible
Or my heart
Or if any
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
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;
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If so be that I have withdrawn my foot out of the right way, if my heart hath followed mine eyesight, if I have stained or defiled my hands,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,
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:7
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Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
6 let him weigh me in [the] balance of justice, and let God know my blamelessness. 7 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, 8 let me sow, and let another eat, and let my crops be rooted out.
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Numbers 15:39
You will have a tassel {for you to look at} and remember all the commands of Yahweh and do them, and not follow {after the unfaithfulness of your own heart and eyes},
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth! Follow the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes-- but know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.
Job 9:30
If I wash myself with soap, and I cleanse my hands with lye,
Job 23:11
My foot has held on to his steps; I have kept his way, and I have not turned aside.
Psalm 44:20-21
If we had forgotten the name of our God, or had spread out our hands [in prayer] to a foreign god,
Psalm 101:3
I will not set before my eyes any wicked thing. I hate the work of those who fall away; it will not cling to me.
Isaiah 33:15
He who walks [in] righteousness and speaks uprightness, who rejects [the] gain of extortion, who {refuses} bribe, who stops up his ears from hearing {bloodshed} and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.
Ezekiel 6:9
And your fugitives will remember me among the nations [to] which they were taken captive, that I was shattered by {their adulterous heart} which departed from me, and by {their adulterous eyes} which [went] after their idols, and they will feel loathing {for themselves}, for the evil that they did, for all of their detestable things.
Ezekiel 14:3
"Son of man, these men took up their idols into their heart and {they placed before themselves} a stumbling block of their guilt. {Should I really let myself be consulted by them}?
Ezekiel 14:7
For {each person} from the house of Israel, and from the alien who dwells as an alien in Israel, who separates himself {from following me} and brings up his idols into his heart and {places before himself} a stumbling block of his guilt, and [yet] he comes to the prophet to consult him concerning me, I Yahweh will answer him myself.
Matthew 5:29
And if your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw [it] from you! For it is better for you that one of your members be destroyed than your whole body be thrown into hell.