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Job 31:5
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If I have walked in falsehoodor my foot has rushed to deceit,
"If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot has hurried to deceit
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
"If I have walked with falsehood and my foot has hastened to deceit;
"If I have been dishonest or lied to others,
If I have walked in falsehood, and if my foot has hastened to deceit—
"If I have walked with falsehood, Or if my foot has chased after deceit,
"If I have walked with deception, And my foot has hurried after deceit,
"If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot has hurried to deceit
If I haue walked in vanitie, or if my foote hath made haste to deceite,
"If I have walked with worthlessness,And my foot has hastened after deceit,
If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,
I am not dishonest or deceitful,
"If I have gone along with falsehood, if my feet have hurried to deceit;
If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit,
"I have not lied to anyone. I never tried to cheat people.
If I have walked with hypocrites, or if my foot hastened to deceit;
I swear I have never acted wickedly and never tried to deceive others.
"If I have walked with falseness, and my foot has hastened to deceit,
If I have walked with vanity, or my foot has hurried to deceit,
Yf I haue cleued vnto vanite, or yf my fete haue runne to disceaue:
If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to deceit
If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;
If I have walked with vanity, and my foot hath hasted to deceit--
If I haue walked with vanitie, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
If I haue walked in vanitie, or if my feete haue runne to disceaue:
But if I had gone with scorners, and if too my foot has hasted to deceit:
If I have walked with vanity, and my foot hath hasted to deceit;
If Y yede in vanyte, and my foot hastide in gile,
If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot has hurried to deceit
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
"If I have walked with falsehood, Or if my foot has hastened to deceit,
"Have I lied to anyone or deceived anyone?
"If I have walked in ways that are false, and my foot has been quick to follow false ways,
"If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit—
Verily I walked not in falsity, nor did my foot haste unto deceit: -
If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit:
"If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hastened to deceit;
If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit,
"Have I walked hand in hand with falsehood, or hung out in the company of deceit? Weigh me on a set of honest scales so God has proof of my integrity. If I've strayed off the straight and narrow, wanted things I had no right to, messed around with sin, Go ahead, then— give my portion to someone who deserves it.
"If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot has hastened after deceit,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
If: Psalms 7:3-5
walked: Psalms 4:2, Psalms 12:2, Psalms 44:20, Psalms 44:21, Proverbs 12:11, Jeremiah 2:5, Ezekiel 13:8
Reciprocal: Joshua 22:22 - if it be Psalms 1:1 - walketh Psalms 7:5 - Let Proverbs 19:2 - and Luke 7:2 - who
Cross-References
And it comes to pass at that time that Abimelech speaks—Phichol also, head of his host—to Abraham, saying, "God [is] with you in all that you are doing;
and Jacob sees the face of Laban, and behold, it is not with him as before.
And YHWH says to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your family, and I am with you."
I [am] the God of Bethel where you have anointed a standing pillar, where you have vowed a vow to me; now, arise, go out from this land, and return to the land of your birth."
unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, surely now you had sent me away empty; God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and reproves last night."
the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, judges between us—the God of their father," and Jacob swears by the Fear of his father Isaac.
And Jacob says, "God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, YHWH who says to me, Return to your land and to your family, and I do good with you:
And he blesses Joseph and says, "God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac habitually walked: God who is feeding me from my being to this day:
Thus you say to Joseph: Ah, now, please bear with the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they have done you evil; and now, please bear with the transgression of the servants of the God of your father"; and Joseph weeps in their speaking to him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
If I have walked with vanity,.... Or with vain men, as Bar Tzemach interprets it, keeping company and having fellowship with them in their vain and sinful practices; or in the vanity of his mind, indulging himself in impurity of heart and life; or rather using deceitful methods to cheat and defraud others; for this seems to be another vice Job clears himself of, acting unjustly in his dealings with men, or dealing falsely with them:
or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; to cheat men in buying and selling, being ready and swift to do it, and in haste to become rich, which puts men oftentimes on evil ways and methods to attain it; see
Proverbs 28:20.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
If I have walked with vanity - This is the second specification in regard to his private deportment. He says that his life had been sincere, upright, honest. The word vanity here is equivalent to falsehood, for so the parallelism demands, and so the word (שׁוא shâv') is often used; Psalms 12:3; Psalms 41:7; Exodus 23:1; Deuteronomy 5:20; compare Isa, Deuteronomy 1:13. The meaning of Job here is, that he had been true and honest. In his dealings with others he had not defrauded them; he had not misrepresented things; he had spoken the exact truth, and had done that which was without deception or guile.
If my foot hath hasted to deceit - That is, if I have gone to execute a purpose of deceit or fraud. He had never, on seeing an opportunity where others might be defrauded, hastened to embrace it. The Septuagint renders this verse, “If I have walked with scoffers - μετα γελοιαστῶν meta geloiastōn - and if my foot has hastened to deceit.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 31:5. If I have walked with vanity — If I have been guilty of idolatry, or the worshipping of a false god: for thus שאו shau, which we here translate vanity, is used Jeremiah 18:15; (compare with Psalms 31:6; Hosea 12:11; and Jonah 2:9,) and it seems evident that the whole of Job's discourse here is a vindication of himself from all idolatrous dispositions and practices.
