Job 31:5

31:5 If ¹  I have walked in falsehood,

and if ²  my foot has hastened ³  to deceit –

Job 35:13

35:13 Surely it is an empty cry ⁴  – God does not hear it;

the Almighty does not take notice of it.

¹ 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.

² tn The “if” is understood by the use of the consecutive verb.

³ sn The verbs “walk” and “hasten” (referring in the verse to the foot) are used metaphorically for the manner of life Job lived.

⁴ tn Heb “surely – vanity, he does not hear.” The cry is an empty cry, not a prayer to God. Dhorme translates it, “It is a pure waste of words.”