Job 31:6
let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.
Catholic Public Domain 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 in vanity, or if my foot has hurried towards deceitfulness,
Cross References
Joshua 22:22“The Lord, the almighty God, the Lord, the almighty God, he knows, and also Israel will understand: If we have constructed this altar with intent of transgression, let him not preserve us, but instead punish us immediately.
Job 6:2I wish that my sins, for which I deserve wrath, and the calamity that I endure, were weighed out on a balance.
Job 27:5Far be it from me that I should judge you to be right, for, until I expire, I will not withdraw from my innocence.
Psalms 7:8and a congregation of people will surround you. And, because of this, return on high.
Psalms 26:1A Psalm of David, before he was sealed. The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?
Proverbs 16:11Weights and scales are judgments of the Lord. And all the stones in 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 →