Job 23:11 Cross References - MLV

¹¹ My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way and not turned aside.

² And now, behold, the king walks before you*. And I am old and gray headed, and behold, my sons are with you*. And I have walked before you* from my youth to this day.
³ Here I am. Witness against me before Jehovah and before his anointed: Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or of whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? And I will restore it to you*.
⁴ And they said, You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything of any man's hand. ⁵ And he said to them, Jehovah is witness against you* and his anointed is witness this day, that you* have not found anything in my hand. And they said, He is witness.

⁹ Yet the righteous will hold on his way. And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

⁵ My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

²⁰ Jehovah has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me. ²¹ Because I have kept the ways of Jehovah and have not wickedly departed from my God.
²² Because all his ordinances were before me and I put not away his statutes from me. ²³ I was also perfect with him and I kept myself from my iniquity.
²⁴ Therefore Jehovah has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

³ The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

¹⁸ Our heart is not turned back, nor have our steps declined from your way,

⁵ But as for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of wickedness.
Peace be upon Israel.

⁶ and those who are turned back from following Jehovah and those who have not sought Jehovah, nor inquired after him.

¹³ But those upon the rock are those who, whenever they hear, accept the word with joy, and these have no root, who for a short time believe, and in time of temptation, withdraw. ¹⁴ But what fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and while they are traveling on with life, they are choked by anxieties and riches and sensual-delights of this life, and they are not bringing themselves to maturity. ¹⁵ But that seed in the good soil, these are such as in a good and beautiful heart, having heard the word, hold-onto it and are bearing-fruit with endurance.

¹⁸ Now as they came to him, he said to them, You know, from the first day of which I stepped into Asia, how I happened to be with you all the time, ¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility and from many tears, and from tests which befell me among the pacts of the Jews;

³³ I coveted no one’s silver or gold or garment. ³⁴ You yourselves know that these hands attended to my needs, and to those being with me.

⁷ Everlasting life to those who indeed by endurance in good work are seeking glory and honor and incorruption.

¹² For this is our boasting, the testimony of our conscience, that in clarity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the world and even-more toward you.

¹⁰ You and God are witnesses, as we became holy and righteous and blameless toward you who believe.

²⁰ For if, having fled away from the defilements of the world in the full knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and having been again entangled, they are succumbed in these things, the last state has become worse to them than the first. ²¹ For it was better for them to have not known fully the way of righteousness, than to turn away from the holy commandment given to them after having fully known it. ²² But it has befallen to them as the way of the true proverb, ‘ The dog having turning again toward his own vomit,’and the sow that had fully-washed, to wallowing in the mud.