Job 31:5
If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,
BSB
ASV
If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to deceit
KJV
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
If I have walked in vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit, let Him weigh me in an even balance, and let God know mine integrity. 'God to know' is said for His making us to know by a customary mode of our speech, who speak of 'a happy day,' by which it happens that we are made happy. For hence it is the Lord saith to Abraham, Now I know that thou fearest God.
If I have walked with vanity - This is the second specification in regard to his private deportment. He says that his life had been sincere, upright, honest. The word vanity here is equivalent to falsehood, for so the parallelism demands, and so the word (שׁוא shâv') is often used; Psa 12:3; Psa 41:7; Exo 23:1; Deu 5:20; compare Isa, Deu 1:13. The meaning of Job here is, that he had been true and honest.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Proverbs 12:11The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.
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The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.
For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
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Psalms 4:2How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah
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“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; they exchanged their Glory for a thing of disgrace.
But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.
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Psalms 12:2They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
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For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.