Parallel Verses

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,

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If so be that I have withdrawn my foot out of the right way, if my heart hath followed mine eyesight, if I have stained or defiled my hands,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

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 He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity. 7 If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish, 8 Let me sow -- and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.


Cross References

Numbers 15:39

and it hath been to you for a fringe, and ye have seen it, and have remembered all the commands of Jehovah, and have done them, and ye search not after your heart, and after your eyes, after which ye are going a-whoring;

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment.

Job 9:30

If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands,

Job 23:11

On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside,

Psalm 44:20-21

If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,

Psalm 101:3

I set not before mine eyes a worthless thing, The work of those turning aside I have hated, It adhereth not to me.

Isaiah 33:15

Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil,

Ezekiel 6:9

And remembered Me have your escaped among nations, Whither they have been taken captive, Because I have been broken with their heart that is going a-whoring, That hath turned aside from off Me, And with their eyes they are going a-whoring after their idols, And they have been loathsome in their own faces, For the evils that they have done -- all their abominations.

Ezekiel 14:3

'Son of man, these men have caused their idols to go up on their heart, and the stumbling-block of their iniquity they have put over-against their faces; am I inquired of at all by them?

Ezekiel 14:7

for every one of the house of Israel, and of the sojourners who doth sojourn in Israel, who is separated from after Me, and doth cause his idols to go up unto his heart, and the stumbling-block of his iniquity setteth over-against his face, and hath come in unto the prophet to inquire of him concerning Me, I, Jehovah, have answered him for Myself;

Matthew 5:29

'But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.

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