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5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

Job 31:5

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; …

  • He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

  • They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

  • Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

  • O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

The lusts of the flesh, and the love of the world, are the two fatal rocks on which multitudes split; against these Job protests he was always careful to stand upon his guard. I. Against the lusts of the flesh. He not only kept himself clear from adultery, from defiling his neighbour’s wives (Job 31:9), but from all lewdness with any women whatsoever. He kept no concubine, no mistress, but was inv…

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