🌪️WEB · Job 31:7

What does Job 31:7 mean?

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

— Job 31:7 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

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“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

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(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

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

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then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

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“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,

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then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

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