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Job 31:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

If my step has turned from the way, my heart has followed my eyes, or impurity has stained my hands,

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These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the Lord’s commands and obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart  and your own eyes.


Rejoice, young person, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. And walk in the ways of your heart and in the desire of your eyes; but know that for all of these things God will bring you to judgement.


If your right eye causes you to sin,   gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.


For when anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who reside in Israel separates himself from me, setting up idols in his heart and putting his sinful stumbling block in front of himself, and then comes to the prophet to enquire of me, I, the Lord, will answer him myself.


‘Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and have put their sinful stumbling blocks in front of themselves.  Should I actually let them enquire of me?


Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive,  how I was crushed by their promiscuous hearts that turned away from me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols.  They will loathe themselves because of the evil things they did,  their detestable actions of every kind.


The one who lives righteously and speaks rightly, who refuses profit from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots and shuts his eyes against evil schemes   –


My feet have followed in his tracks; I have kept to his way  and not turned aside.


If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,


Yet the righteous person will hold to his way, and the one whose hands are clean  will grow stronger.


although my hands are free from violence and my prayer is pure.


I will never affirm that you are right. I will maintain my integrity  , until I die.


I will cling to my righteousness and never let it go. My conscience  will not accuse me as long as I live!





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