Job 23:11
My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have not declined from it.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Vestigia ejus secutus est pes meus : viam ejus custodivi, et non declinavi ex ea.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐξελεύσομαι δὲ ἐν ἐντάλμασιν αὐτοῦ, ὁδοὺς γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἐφύλαξα, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἐκκλίνω·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- בַּ֭אֲשֻׁרוֹ אָחֲזָ֣ה רַגְלִ֑י דַּרְכּ֖וֹ שָׁמַ֣רְתִּי וְלֹא אָֽט
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection in Righteousness, Who May Be Said to Keep the Ways of the Lord; What It is to Decline and Depart from the Ways of the Lord
Then again, as for what he says, “For I have kept His ways, and have not turned aside from His commandments, nor will I depart from them;” he has kept God’s ways who does not so turn aside as to forsake them, but makes progress by running his course therein; although, weak as he is, he sometimes stumbles or falls, onward, however, he still goes, sinning less and less until he reaches the perfect state in which he will sin no more. For in no other way could he make progress, except by keeping His ways. The man, indeed, who declines from these and becomes an apostate at last, is certainly not he who, although he has sin, yet never ceases to persevere in fighting against it until he arrives at the home where there shall remain no more conflict with death. …