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Job 31:3-5
New English Translation
Job 31:3-5
New English Translation
3 Is it not misfortune for the unjust,
and disaster for those who work iniquity?
4 Does he not see my ways
and count all my steps?
5 If[a] I have walked in falsehood,
and if[b] my foot has hastened[c] to deceit—
Footnotes
- Job 31:5 tn The normal approach is to take this as the protasis, and then have it resumed in v. 7 after a parenthesis in v. 6. But some take v. 6 as the apodosis and a new protasis in v. 7.
- Job 31:5 tn The “if” is understood by the use of the consecutive verb.
- Job 31:5 sn The verbs “walk” and “hasten” (referring in the verse to the foot) are used metaphorically for the manner of life Job lived.
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