Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
Job 31:27 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand; Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And my heart has been secretly enticed by them or my mouth has kissed my hand [in homage to them], American Standard Version (1901) And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand: Common English Bible and my mind has been secretly enticed, and threw a kiss with my hand, Catholic Public Domain Version so that my heart rejoiced in secret and I kissed my hand with my mouth, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth |
Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I should have been false to God above.
kiss his feet, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way; for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”
And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord; and behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east.
And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves molten images, idols skilfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. Sacrifice to these, they say. Men kiss calves!
for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.
Take heed lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them,
“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which neither you nor your fathers have known,
And beware lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and worship them and serve them, things which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.