King James Version
Job 31:7 in the King James Version says “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...” — study this verse from Job chapter 31 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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 · KJV
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;
KJV Study — Public Domain
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
“hath turned out”
H5186to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
“of the way”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
“after”
H310properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
“mine eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
“and mine heart”
H3820the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the center of anything
“to mine hands”
H3709the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-
“hath cleaved”
H1692properly, to impinge, i.e., cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit
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