Job 31:5
What meaning of the job 31:5 in the Bible?
What does Job 31:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;"
What does Job 31:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;"
Verse Job 31:5. _IF I HAVE WALKED WITH VANITY_] If I have been guilty of _idolatry_, or the worshipping of a _false god_: for thus שאו _shau,_ which we here translate _vanity_, is used Jeremiah 18:15;...
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 fals...
CHAPTER 31 _ 1. My chastity and righteousness (Job 31:1)_ 2. My philanthropy (Job 31:13) 3. My integrity and hospitality (Job 31:24) 4. Let God and man disprove me (Job 31:35) Job 31:1. His final...
JOB 31. THE OATH OF CLEARING. Job's final protestation of his innocence, and appeal to God to judge him. This chapter, says Duhm, is the high-water mark of the OT ethic, higher than the Decalogue or e...
IF I HAVE WALKED WITH VANITY— _If I have followed after a lie, or my foot hath hastened to fraud._ Houbigant....
Solemn declaration that neither in him nor in his conduct was there justification for the change, and he is ready to face God (Job 31:1-40) a. He was not lustful. (Job 31:1-8) TEXT 31:1-8 1 I MADE...
_IF I HAVE WALKED WITH VANITY, OR IF MY FOOT HATH HASTED TO DECEIT;_ Job's abstinence from evil deeds. VANITY - i:e., falsehood (Psalms 12:2)....
JOB PROTESTS THE INNOCENCE OF HIS PAST LIFE Job's virtues are those of a great Arab prince, such as are admired still: namely, blameless family life, consideration for the poor and weak, charity, mod...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 31 JOB FINISHES HIS LAST SP...
אִם ־הָלַ֥כְתִּי עִם ־שָׁ֑וְא וַ תַּ֖חַשׁ עַל ־מִרְמָ֣ה רַגְלִֽי׃...
XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1; Job 30:1; Job 31:1 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job looks back to the...
THE CLEAN LIFE Job 31:1 Job had specially guarded against impurity, for its heritage is one of calamity and disaster. He is sure that even if he were weighed by God Himself there would be no iniquit...
This whole chapter is taken up with Job's solemn oath of innocence. It is ills official answer to the line of argument adopted by his three friends. In the process of his declaration he called on God...
_Vanity, or hypocrisy, (Calmet) so as to overreach others. (Menochius)_...
(2) For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? (3) Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? (4) Doth...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
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, indu...
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; Ver. 5. _If I have walked with vanity_] As they do who disquiet themselves in vain, in heaping up riches by evil arts, by deceits an...
_If I have walked with vanity_ Conversed in the world, or dealt with men, with lying, falsehood, or hypocrisy, as the word _vanity_ is often used; _or if my foot hath hasted to deceit_ If, when I had...
JOB RECOUNTS HIS BLAMELESS CONDUCT...
Though Job's misery was complete, he returns in this chapter to the defence of his whole life, which was comparatively more virtuous than that of any other man. God had said this to Satan long before...
Notice the repetition of the word "if" in the section that follows. Job is willing to suffer the full consequences, "if" he had been guilty of any of the following sins. "Not only were his eyes innoce...
1-8 Job did not speak the things here recorded by way of boasting, but in answer to the charge of hypocrisy. He understood the spiritual nature of God's commandments, as reaching to the thoughts and...
WALKED, i.e. conversed in the world, dealt with men. WITH VANITY, i.e. with lying, or falsehood, or hypocrisy, as this word is oft used, as PSALMS 4:2, PSALMS 12:3 36:3 PROVERBS 30:8, and as the next...
Job 31:5 walked H1980 (H8804) falsehood H7723 foot H7272 hastened H2363 (H8799) deceit H4820 If - Psalms 7:3-5 walked - Psalms 4:2, Psalms 12:2, Psalms 44:20-21; Proverbs 12:11;...
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He insists on his integrity. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: An upright heart does not dread a scrutiny. A good man is willing to know the worst of himse...
Job 31:1. _A maid._ The LXX, followed by the Chaldaic, read virgin; but our English version has the most ancient support. Job was pure and spotless in conversation with women. He abhorred seduction, a...
_I made a covenant with mine eyes._ GUARD THE SENSES Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan’s landing places, especially the eye and the ear. (_W. Gurnall._) METHODS OF MORAL...
_JOB’S SELF-VINDICATION.—HIS SOLILOQUY CONTINUED_ Concludes his speeches by a solemn, particular, and extended declaration of the purity and uprightness of his life. Especial reference to his _privat...
EXPOSITION The conclusion of Job's long speech (ch. 26-31.) is now reached. He winds it up by a solemn vindication of himself from all the charges of wicked conduct which have been alleged or insinuat...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Job, chapter 31. Job has pretty well talked down all of his friends. Bildad has had his last word and Job is still responding, and has been responding, actua...
Ezekiel 13:8; Jeremiah 2:5; Proverbs 12:11; Psalms 12:2; Psalms 4:2; Psalms 44:20; Psalms 44:21; Psalms 7:3...
Walked — Dealt with men. Vanity — With lying, or falsehood. Deceit — If when I had an opportunity of enriching myself, by wronging others, I have readily and greedily complied with It....