22:15 Will you keep to the old path 1
that evil men have walked –
31:5 If 2 I have walked in falsehood,
and if 3 my foot has hastened 4 to deceit –
1 tn The “old path” here is the way of defiance to God. The text in these two verses is no doubt making reference to the flood in Genesis, one of the perennial examples of divine judgment.
2 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.
3 tn The “if” is understood by the use of the consecutive verb.
4 sn The verbs “walk” and “hasten” (referring in the verse to the foot) are used metaphorically for the manner of life Job lived.