Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;
New American Standard Bible
And my foot has hastened after deceit,
King James Version
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Holman Bible
or my foot has rushed to deceit,
International Standard Version
"If I've lived my life in the company of vanity, or run quickly to embrace deception,
A Conservative Version
If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hastened to deceit
American Standard Version
If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Amplified
“If I have walked with falsehood,
Or if my foot has chased after deceit,
Darby Translation
If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit,
Julia Smith Translation
If I went with vanity, and my foot will haste upon deceit;
King James 2000
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hastened to deceit;
Lexham Expanded Bible
"If I have walked with falseness, and my foot has hastened to deceit,
Modern King James verseion
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hurried to deceit,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If I have cleaved unto vanity, or if my feet have run to deceive,
NET Bible
If I have walked in falsehood, and if my foot has hastened to deceit --
New Heart English Bible
"If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit
The Emphasized Bible
Verily I walked not in falsity, nor did my foot haste unto deceit: -
Webster
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
World English Bible
"If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit
Youngs Literal Translation
If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit,
Themes
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
4 Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered? 5 If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit; 6 (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)
Names
Cross References
Psalm 4:2
O you sons of men, how long will you go on turning my glory into shame? how long will you give your love to foolish things, going after what is false? (Selah.)
Psalm 7:3-5
O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;
Psalm 12:2
Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.
Psalm 44:20-21
If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,
Proverbs 12:11
He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.
Jeremiah 2:5
These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?
Ezekiel 13:8
So this is what the Lord has said: Because your words are without substance and your visions are false, see, I am against you, says the Lord.
Micah 2:11
If a man came with a false spirit of deceit, saying, I will be a prophet to you of wine and strong drink: he would be the sort of prophet for this people.