Job 23:11
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
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Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; {steps: or, goings}
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: {but} peace {shall be} upon Israel.
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. {be...: Heb. add strength}
Hold up my goings in thy paths, {that} my footsteps slip not. {slip...: Heb. be not moved}
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
They on the rock {are they}, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons,
And them that are turned back from the LORD; and {those} that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
The words of his mouth {are} iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, {and} to do good.
And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons {are} with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.
I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.
Ye {are} witnesses, and God {also}, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
The steps of a {good} man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. {ordered: or, established}
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name {was} Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
{Is} not {this} thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
My soul breaketh for the longing {that it hath} unto thy judgments at all times.
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget {it} not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
The proud have had me greatly in derision: {yet} have I not declined from thy law.
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that {there is} none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? {considered: Heb. set thy heart on}
Hold up my goings in thy paths, {that} my footsteps slip not. {slip...: Heb. be not moved}
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
The law of his God {is} in his heart; none of his steps shall slide. {steps: or, goings}
Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; {steps: or, goings}
And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, {and} wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it. {shall follow...: Heb. shall be after it}
Many {are} my persecutors and mine enemies; {yet} do I not decline from thy testimonies.
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: {but} peace {shall be} upon Israel.
And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done {that which is} good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. {sore: Heb. with great weeping}
But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep {it}, and bring forth fruit with patience.
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
I am clean without transgression, I {am} innocent; neither {is there} iniquity in me.
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;