King James Version
Job 31:5 in the King James Version says “If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;” — study this verse from Job chapter 31 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;”
Job 31:5 · KJV
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;
KJV Study — Public Domain
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
“If I have walked”
H1980to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then
“with vanity”
H7723evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, object
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“or if my foot”
H7272a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
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