and been secretly enticed in my heart to throw kisses at them in worship?
Parallel translations
- WEB and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
- KJV And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
- BSB so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
- NKJV So that my heart has been secretly enticed, And my mouth has kissed my hand;
- NASB And my heart was secretly enticed, And my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
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Quick answer
Job affirms that his heart was never secretly enticed to honor these objects with a kiss of homage. He kept his inner devotion pure.
Overview
Job denies even the hidden, inward beginnings of idolatry, such as throwing a kiss to the sun or moon as an act of reverence. His concern reaches beyond outward acts to the secret enticement of the heart. This emphasis on inner devotion shows that true worship is a matter of the heart, a truth Jesus affirms in calling for worship in spirit and in truth through himself.
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Cross-references · 8
- Deut 13:6If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
- Deut 11:16Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
- Isa 44:20He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
- Ps 2:12Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
- Hos 13:2Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’
- Rom 1:28Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
- Rom 1:21Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
- 1 Kgs 19:18Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.”
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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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