Key Verse Spotlight
Job 31:5 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;”
Job 31:5
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
{Is} not destruction to the wicked? and a strange {punishment} to the workers of iniquity?
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. {Let...: Heb. Let him weigh me in balances of justice}
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
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