Job 31:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 4:2 : 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.)
  • Ps 7:3-5 : 3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong; 4 If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause; 5 Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)
  • Ps 12:2 : 2 Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.
  • Ps 44:20-21 : 20 If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god, 21 Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart.
  • Prov 12:11 : 11 He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.
  • Jer 2:5 : 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?
  • Ezek 13:8 : 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.
  • Mic 2:11 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Job 31:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

    6 (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)

    7 If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

  • Job 31:4
    80%

    4 Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

  • Job 23:11
    77%

    11 My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.

  • Job 31:9
    76%

    9 If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

  • Ps 17:5
    76%

    5 I have kept my feet in your ways, my steps have not been turned away.

  • Ps 73:2
    75%

    2 But as for me, my feet had almost gone from under me; I was near to slipping;

  • Ps 26:11
    75%

    11 But as for me, I will go on in my upright ways: be my saviour, and have mercy on me.

  • Job 31:37-38
    2 verses
    75%

    37 I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended.

    38 If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

  • Ps 26:1
    74%

    1 <Of David.> O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

  • Job 31:24-29
    6 verses
    74%

    24 If I made gold my hope, or if I ever said to the best gold, I have put my faith in you;

    25 If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;

    26 If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,

    27 A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;

    28 That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.

    29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

  • Job 31:33
    73%

    33 If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,

  • Ps 7:3
    73%

    3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

  • Job 19:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4 And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself.

    5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

  • Job 33:11
    71%

    11 He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.

  • Mic 6:11
    71%

    11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?

  • 2 Sam 22:37
    71%

    37 You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet make no slip.

  • Job 9:29
    71%

    29 You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?

  • Job 15:31
    71%

    31 Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.

  • Ps 38:16
    71%

    16 I said, Let them not be glad over me; when my foot is moved, let them not be lifted up with pride against me.

  • Job 14:16
    71%

    16 For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.

  • Ps 18:23
    71%

    23 And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

  • Ps 73:15
    71%

    15 If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

  • 2 Sam 22:24
    71%

    24 And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

  • Ps 18:21
    71%

    21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

  • Ps 18:36
    70%

    36 You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.

  • Ps 31:6
    70%

    6 I am full of hate for those who go after false gods; but my hope is in the Lord.

  • 2 Sam 22:22
    70%

    22 For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

  • Ps 26:3
    70%

    3 For your mercy is before my eyes; and I have gone in the way of your good faith.

  • Job 9:20
    70%

    20 Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.

  • Ps 73:13
    70%

    13 As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

  • Prov 19:2
    70%

    2 Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.

  • Ps 49:5
    70%

    5 What cause have I for fear in the days of evil, when the evil-doing of those who are working for my downfall is round about me?

  • Ps 41:6
    70%

    6 If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.

  • Job 12:5
    70%

    5 In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

  • Job 22:15
    70%

    15 Will you keep the old way by which evil men went?

  • Prov 10:9
    70%

    9 He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.

  • Ps 36:11
    70%

    11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, or the hand of the evil-doers put me out of my place.

  • Jer 2:5
    70%

    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?

  • Job 34:32
    69%

    32 ...

  • Job 24:25
    69%

    25 And if it is not so, now, who will make it clear that my words are false, and that what I say is of no value?

  • Job 31:21
    69%

    21 If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

  • Job 10:14
    69%

    14 That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin: