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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If so be that I have withdrawn my foot out of the right way, if my heart hath followed mine eyesight, if I have stained or defiled my hands,
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;
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;
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 me be weighed in an even balance, that God may see my innocence. 7 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, 8 then shall I sow, and another eat; yea, my generation and posterity shall be clean rooted out.
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Cross References
Numbers 15:39
And the guard shall be unto you to look upon it, that ye remember all the commandments of the LORD and do them: that ye seek not a way after your own hearts and after your own eyes, for to go a whoring after them:
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Be glad then, O thou young man, in thy youth, and let thine heart be merry in thy young days; follow the ways of thine own heart, and the lust of thine eyes: but be thou sure, that God shall bring thee into judgment for all these things.
Job 9:30
Though I washed my self with snowy water, and made mine hands never so clean,
Job 23:11
My foot doth keep his path; his highway have I holden, and will not go out of it.
Psalm 44:20-21
If we have forgotten the name of our God, and hold up our hands to any strange god,
Psalm 101:3
I will take no wicked thing in hand. I hate the sin of unfaithfulness; it shall not cleave unto me.
Isaiah 33:15
He that leadeth a godly life - say I - and speaketh the truth; He that abhorreth to do violence and deceit; he that keepeth his hand that he touch no reward; which stoppeth his ears, that he hear no counsel against the innocent; which holdeth down his eyes, that he see none evil.
Ezekiel 6:9
And they that escape from you, shall think upon me among the Heathen, where they shall be in captivity. As for that whorish and unfaithful heart of theirs, wherewith they run away from me, I will break it: Yea, and put out those eyes of theirs, that committed fornication with their idols. Then shall they be ashamed, and displeased with their selves, for the wickedness and abominations, which they have done:
Ezekiel 14:3
"Thou son of man, these men bear their idols in their hearts, and go purposely upon the stumbling block of their own wickedness: how dare they then ask counsel at me?
Ezekiel 14:7
For every man, whether he be of the house of Israel, or a stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which departeth from me, and carrieth idols in his heart, purposing to go still stumbling in his own wickedness, and cometh to a Prophet, for to ask counsel at me through him: unto that man will I the LORD give answer, by mine own self.
Matthew 5:29
Wherfore if thy right eye offend thee, pluck him out, and cast him from thee: better it is for thee that one of thy members perish, than that thy whole body should be cast into hell.