Job 31:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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;

Connected with Job 31:6.

The way - of God (Job 23:11; Jeremiah 5:5). A godly life.

Heart walked after ... eyes - if my heart coveted what my eyes beheld (Ecclesiastes 11:9; Joshua 7:21, where the successive stages in the progress of sin here mentioned are exemplified in Achan's case - "I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonian garment, etc., then I coveted them, and took them: and behold they are hid in the earth").

Hands - (Psalms 24:4).

Job 31:7

7 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;