My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.
Parallel translations
- WEB My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.
- KJV My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
- NKJV My foot has held fast to His steps; I have kept His way and not turned aside.
- NASB “My foot has held on to His path; I have kept His way and not turned aside.
- NLT For I have stayed on God’s paths; I have followed his ways and not turned aside.
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Quick answer
Job affirms that he has faithfully followed God's ways and not strayed. It matters because his integrity is genuine, not the hidden sin his friends allege.
Overview
Continuing his reply to Eliphaz, Job protests his innocence by recalling his steady obedience to God's path. He insists his suffering is not the result of secret wickedness, undercutting the friends' retribution theology. Job's sincere desire to walk in God's ways points beyond himself to Christ, who alone perfectly kept the Father's way.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Ps 44:18Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
- 2 Pet 2:20–22If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.
- Ps 125:5But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
- Ps 17:5My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.
- Job 17:9Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
- Rom 2:7To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.
- Luke 8:13–15The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall away.
- Acts 20:18–19When they came to him, he said, “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I arrived in the province of Asia.
- Ps 18:20–24The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.
- 2 Cor 1:12And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.
- Ps 36:3The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.
- Zeph 1:6and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”
- 1 Sam 12:2–5Now here is the king walking before you, and I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.
- Acts 20:33–34I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing.
- 1 Th 2:10You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous, and blameless our conduct was among you who believed.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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