Job 31:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִ֥ם תִּטֶּ֣ה אַשֻּׁרִי֮ מִנִּ֢י הַ֫דָּ֥רֶךְ וְאַחַ֣ר עֵ֭ינַי הָלַ֣ךְ לִבִּ֑י וּ֝בְכַפַּ֗י דָּ֣בַק מֻאוּֽם׃

Transliteration

If-tiṭṭeh ʾaššurî from the-dārek and-after ʿênay hālak libbî and-in-kappay dābaq muʾûm

Grammar Details

• *tiṭṭeh*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - it turned aside
• *ʾaššurî*: noun, feminine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my step
• *dārek*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the way/path
• *ʿênay*: noun, feminine dual construct with 1st person singular suffix - my eyes
• *hālak*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it went/walked
• *libbî*: noun, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my heart
• *kappay*: noun, feminine dual construct with 1st person singular suffix - my palms/hands
• *dābaq*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it clung/adhered
• *muʾûm*: noun, masculine singular - anything/spot/blemish

Word Meanings

• *tiṭṭeh*: turned aside/deviated/swerved
• *ʾaššurî*: my step/my footstep
• *dārek*: way/path/road
• *hālak libbî*: my heart has gone/my heart has followed
• *dābaq*: clung/stuck/adhered
• *muʾûm*: spot/blemish/anything [unclean]

Referenced Verses

• Num 15:39 : 39 and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and do them; and that ye follow not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to play the harlot;
• Eccl 11:9 : 9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
• Matt 5:29 : 29 And if thy right eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.
• Isa 33:15 : 15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking a bribe, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil:
• Ezek 6:9 : 9 And those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which hath departed from me, and with they eyes, which play the harlot after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
• Ezek 14:3 : 3 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?
• Ezek 14:7 : 7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that separateth himself from me, and taketh his idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Jehovah will answer him by myself:
• Job 9:30 : 30 If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;
• Job 23:11 : 11 My foot hath held fast to his steps; His way have I kept, and turned not aside.
• Ps 44:20-21 : 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god; 21 Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
• Ps 101:3 : 3 I will set no base thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; It shall not cleave unto me.