Job 31:5
If I have walked in vanity, or if my foot has hurried towards deceitfulness,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
In Context
4Does he not examine my ways and number all my steps?
6let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.
Cross References
Joshua 22:22“The Lord, the almighty God, the Lord, the almighty God, he knows, and also Israel will understand: If we have constructed this altar with intent of transgression, let him not preserve us, but instead punish us immediately.
Psalms 7:3lest at any time, like a lion, he might seize my soul, while there is no one to redeem me, nor any who can save.
Psalms 26:4One thing I have asked of the Lord, this I will seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, so that I may behold the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple.
Proverbs 12:11Whoever works his land shall be satisfied with bread. But whoever continually pursues leisure is most foolish. Whoever is soothed by lingering over wine leaves behind contempt in his strongholds.
Ezekiel 13:8Because of this, thus says the Lord God: Since you have spoken emptiness and have seen falsehoods, therefore: behold, I am against you, says the Lord God.
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 →