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Job 31:5 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; "
Job 31:5
Verse in Context
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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 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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Job 31:1
"I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?"
Job 31:2
"For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?"
Job 31:3
"Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?"
Job 31:4
"Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?"
Job 31:6
"Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity."
Job 31:7
"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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