Job 31:5
If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
In Context
4Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?
6(Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)
Cross References
Joshua 22:22God, even God the Lord, God, even God the Lord, he sees, and Israel will see--if it is in pride or in sin against the Lord,
Psalms 7:3\7:2\So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.
Psalms 26:4I have not taken my seat with foolish persons, and I do not go with false men.
Proverbs 12:11He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.
Ezekiel 13:8So this is what the Lord has said: Because your words are without substance and your visions are false, see, I am against you, says the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:2-9
Job's Vindication of Himself. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? 2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? 3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? 4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? 5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; 6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. 7 If my step hath… Read the whole commentary →