If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
I made a covenant with my eyes, that is my guard against the very first step toward lust, no wanton look, no indulgence of imagination. Sickness may afflict the body, but a clean conscience in these matters is a comfort no pain can take away.
AI summary
Commenting on Job 31:1-8
Let me be weighed in an even balance,.... Or "in balances of righteousness" (z), even in the balance or strict justice, the justice of God; he was so conscious to himself that he had done no injustice to any man in his dealings with them, that, if weight of righteousness, which was to be, and was the rule of his conduct between man and man...
Job's abstinence from evil deeds. vanity--that is, falsehood (Psa 12:2).