If I have walked with falsehood or my foot has hurried to deceit, establishing the conditional structure Job will employ repeatedly: if Job has committed a particular sin, then may he receive judgment. The walking with falsehood and hurrying to deceit represent moral failures Job claims not to have committed. The conditional form allows Job to invoke judgment on himself if his claim proves false. The verse establishes Job's method of moral testimony: conditional self-curse if guilty.

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