Job 31:5

5 si ambulavi in vanitate et festinavit in dolo pes meus

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 numquid non perditio est iniquo et alienatio operantibus iniustitiam

4 nonne ipse considerat vias meas et cunctos gressus meos dinumerat

5 si ambulavi in vanitate et festinavit in dolo pes meus

6 adpendat me in statera iusta et sciat Deus simplicitatem meam

7 si declinavit gressus meus de via et si secutum est oculos meos cor meum et in manibus meis adhesit macula