Job 31:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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;

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 15:39 : 39 So that, looking on these ornaments, you may keep in mind the orders of the Lord and do them; and not be guided by the desires of your hearts and eyes, through which you have been untrue to me:
  • Eccl 11:9 : 9 Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.
  • Matt 5:29 : 29 And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.
  • Isa 33:15 : 15 He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;
  • Ezek 6:9 : 9 And those of you who are kept safe will have me in mind among the nations where they have been taken away as prisoners, how I sent punishment on their hearts which were untrue to me, and on their eyes which were turned to their false gods: and they will be full of hate for themselves because of the evil things which they have done in all their disgusting ways.
  • Ezek 14:3 : 3 Son of man, these men have taken their false gods into their hearts and put before their faces the sin which is the cause of their fall: am I to give ear when they come to me for directions?
  • Ezek 14:7 : 7 When any one of the men of Israel, or of those from other lands who are living in Israel, who has become strange to me, and takes his false gods into his heart, and puts before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, comes to the prophet to get directions from me; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself:
  • Job 9:30 : 30 If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;
  • Job 23:11 : 11 My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.
  • Ps 44:20-21 : 20 If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god, 21 Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart.
  • Ps 101:3 : 3 I will not put any evil thing before my eyes; I am against all turning to one side; I will not have it near me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 31:4-6
    3 verses
    82%

    4 Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

    5 If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;

    6 (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)

  • 81%

    3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

  • Job 31:25-27
    3 verses
    79%

    25 If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;

    26 If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,

    27 A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;

  • 11 My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.

  • Job 31:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8 Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

    9 If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

  • 11 But as for me, I will go on in my upright ways: be my saviour, and have mercy on me.

  • 2 But as for me, my feet had almost gone from under me; I was near to slipping;

  • 33 If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,

  • 30 If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;

  • 13 As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

  • 1 I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?

  • Ps 18:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    23 And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

    24 Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.

  • 5 I have kept my feet in your ways, my steps have not been turned away.

  • 75%

    24 And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

    25 Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.

  • 14 That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:

  • Job 31:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21 If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

    22 May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.

  • 32 ...

  • Job 11:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13 But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

    14 If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

  • 17 Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.

  • 1 <Of David.> O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

  • Job 31:37-38
    2 verses
    73%

    37 I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended.

    38 If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

  • 20 Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.

  • 20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

  • 3 I will not put any evil thing before my eyes; I am against all turning to one side; I will not have it near me.

  • 12 Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;

  • 9 Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?

  • 9 Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.

  • 16 For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.

  • 21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

  • 37 Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.

  • 9 I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:

  • 16 If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

  • 3 For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.

  • 22 For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

  • 6 That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,

  • 15 If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

  • 4 And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself.

  • 6 I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.

  • 4 You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.

  • 3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?