Job 31:6
(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
In Context
5If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hastened to deceit
Cross References
Joshua 22:22The Mighty One, God, LORD, the Mighty One, God, LORD, he knows, and Israel he shall know, if it is in rebellion, or if in trespass against LORD (do not save us this day),
Job 6:2O that my grief were but weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
Job 27:5Far be it from me that I should justify you. Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
Psalms 7:8LORD shall judge the peoples. Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
Psalms 26:1Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in LORD without wavering.
Proverbs 16:11A just balance and scales are LORD's. All the weights of the bag are his work.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:2-9
Job's Vindication of Himself. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? 2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? 3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? 4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? 5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; 6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. 7 If my step hath… Read the whole commentary →