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Job 31:5-6
5 If I have walked [halak] with vanity [shav'], or if my foot [regel] hath hasted [chuwsh] to deceit [mirmah];
6 Let me be weighed [shaqal] in an even [tsedeq] balance [mo'zen], that God ['elowahh] may know [yada`] mine integrity [tummah]. KJV-Interlinear
5 'If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot has hastened after deceit, 6 Let Him weigh me with accurate scales, And let God know my integrity. NASB
Walking through life, is the pattern of life which you choose for yourself. It represents the principles for life which you choose to follow. You can follow principles which are defined in the Bible or you can choose to follow principles defined by the world around you.
Vanity is the same of nothingness, or emptiness, or falsehoods.
Only truth has substance and meaning and purpose in life. Anything else is vanity, which means that it is nothing.
Everyone has the freedom of choice, in choosing the pattern of life which they prefer.
To walk, is the function of ones choice in life. To hasten, is the attitude of vigor of their pursuit of their choices in life.
There are only two choices in life with respect to the standards and morals, and principles which govern ones life. There is Gods standard and then there is everything else.
But who is to decide which is best or right?
Well, only one who is perfect and pure and fair can make that decision. And it is God, through His perfect righteousness (sinless perfection) and through His perfect justice (the cleansing action), who can judge as to what is right and fair and pure in life.
God has the only set of scales the only set of standards, the only mechanism by which ones life can be judged.
Man is imperfect and God is perfect. Imperfection cannot make itself perfect. But perfection can reach down and thoroughly wash imperfection and make it clean.
So man, being inherently imperfect and flawed, cannot search out from this world and discover or invent a means of making himself perfect, or elevate himself to some higher level of morality or integrity, or whatever.
Therefore, by choosing anything other than Gods standards, means that you will never become anything more than what you already are - nothing. And what do you suppose the other choice is?
