“ If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; ”
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...
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 o...
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; 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 her...
If I have walked with vanity— If I have followed after a lie, or my foot hath hastened to fraud. Houbigant.
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,...
XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1-25 ; Job 30:1-31 ; Job 31:1-40 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job...
the Clean Life Job 31:1-40 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...
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...
(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...
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, i...
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...
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...
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...
Job's Vindication of Himself. B. C. 1520. 1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then s...
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...
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 pri...
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...
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 mo...
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 in...
Job Recounts his Blameless Conduct
Ezekiel 13:8 ; Jeremiah 2:5 ; Proverbs 12:11 ; Psalms 12:2 ; Psalms 4:2 ; Psalms 44:20 ; Psalms 44:21 ; Psalms 7:3-5
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.