Iyov 31:5

5 If I have walked with shav (vanity, falsehood), or if my regel hath hasted to mirmah (deceit),

Iyov 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 ) .

Iyov 31:5 In-Context

3 Is not destruction to the wicked? And a disaster to the poalei aven (workers of wrong)?

4 Doth not He see my derech, and count all my steps?

5 If I have walked with shav (vanity, falsehood), or if my regel hath hasted to mirmah (deceit),

6 Let me be weighed in scales of tzedek that Eloah may know mine tom (integrity).

7 If my step hath turned out of the derech, and mine lev walked after mine eyes, and if any mum hath cleaved to mine hands,