Job 31:27
Good News Translation
I have not been led astray to honor them by kissing my hand in reverence to them.

New Revised Standard Version
and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand;

Contemporary English Version
worshiped the sun or moon.

New American Bible
And had my heart been secretly enticed to blow them a kiss with my hand,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth:

my heart

Deuteronomy 11:16 Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them:

Deuteronomy 13:6 If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy son, or daughter, or thy wife that is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy own soul, would persuade thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve strange gods, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers,

Isaiah 44:20 Part thereof is ashes: his foolish heart adoreth it, and he will not save his soul, nor say: Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand.

Romans 1:21,28 Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was darkened. . . .

my mouth hath kissed my hand.

1 Kings 19:18 And I will leave me seven thousand men in Israel, whose knees have not been bowed before Baal, and every mouth that hath not worshipped him, kissing the hands.

Psalm 2:12 Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you perish from the just way. [13] When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time, blessed are all they that trust in him.

Hosea 13:2 And now they have sinned more and more: and they have made to themselves a molten thing of their silver as the likeness of idols: the whole is the work of craftsmen: to these that say: Sacrifice men, ye that adore calves.

Context
Job's Final Appeal
26If I beheld the sun when it shined and the moon going in brightness: 27And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth:28Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:16
Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them:

Job 31:26
If I beheld the sun when it shined and the moon going in brightness:

Job 31:28
Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God.

Job 31:26
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