Key Verse Spotlight
Job 31:7 — Meaning and Application
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;”
Job 31:7
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. {Let...: Heb. Let him weigh me in balances of justice}
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;
{Then} let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or {if} I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
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