Job 31:27
so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
BSB
ASV
And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand:
KJV
And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
If I saw the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness, and my heart hath secretly rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth; which is an exceeding iniquity, and denial against the Most High God. There is no doubt that both these two luminaries, which are commissioned to ministrations for man, are called 'the hosts of heaven.' Into the worshipping whereof we know that numbers have fallen, as Scripture is witness; as where it is written, And worshipped all the host of heaven.
And my heart hath been secretly enticed - That is, away from God, or led into sin. Or my mouth hath kissed my hand - Margin, my hand hath kissed my mouth. The margin accords with the Hebrew. It was customary in ancient worship to kiss the idol that was worshipped; compare 1Ki 19:18, “I have left me seven thousand in Israel - and every mouth which hath not kissed him.” See, also, Hos 13:
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Romans 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
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and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
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1 Kings 19:18Nevertheless, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”
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And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy…