Job 31:5 Cross References - LEB

⁵ "If I have walked with falseness, and my foot has hastened to deceit,

² O sons of man, how long will my honor* be a disgrace? How long will you love vanity? How long will you seek lies?* Selah

³ O Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, ⁴ if I have repaid _⌊my ally_⌋* with harm, or if I have plundered my enemy without cause, ⁵ let the enemy of my soul pursue, and overtake and trample my life into the ground, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah

² They speak falseness _⌊to each other_⌋.* With flattering lips, with _⌊a double heart_⌋* they speak.

²⁰ If we had forgotten the name of our God, or had spread out our hands in prayer to a foreign god, ²¹ would not God discover this, for he knows the secrets of the heart?

¹¹ He who works his land will have plenty of food, but he who follows worthless things lacks _⌊sense_⌋.*

⁵ Thus says Yahweh:
"What injustice did your ancestors* find in me that they were far from me, and they went after the vanity, and they became vain?

⁸ Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Because of your speaking falseness and because you envisioned a lie, therefore, look! I am against you!" _⌊declares_⌋* the Lord Yahweh.

¹¹ If a man walks about in a spirit of deception and lies, saying "I will preach to you of wine and strong drink," then he would be a preacher for this people!