Holy Scripture
Job 31:7
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“"The Lord," he says, "knows my innocence, if my foot has turned aside out of the way or if my heart has followed my eye." Is this a further detail? Yes, truly, it was important at that time as well as now. It is important, in fact, to overturn inordinate desires, and it is not less important, after receiving those des…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
7If my foot has turned aside out of the way, Or if my heart has followed mine eye, And if too I have touched gifts with my hands;
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5But if I had gone with scorners, And if too my foot has hastened to deceit
6(For I am weighed in a just balance, And the Lord knows my innocence):
— Job 31:7 —
8Then let me sow, and let others eat; And let me be uprooted on the earth.
9If my heart has gone forth after another man’s wife, And if I laid wait at her doors;