Job 31:5

5 "I haven't told any lies. My feet haven't hurried to cheat others.

Job 31:5 Meaning and Commentary

Job 31:5

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 ) .

Job 31:5 In-Context

3 Sinful people are destroyed. Trouble comes to those who do what is wrong.
4 Doesn't God see how I live? Doesn't he count every step I take?
5 "I haven't told any lies. My feet haven't hurried to cheat others.
6 So let God weigh me in honest scales. Then he'll know I haven't done anything wrong.
7 Suppose my steps have turned away from the right path. Suppose my heart has longed for what my eyes have seen. Or suppose my hands have become 'unclean.'
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