Job 31:6
Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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, and my foot hath made haste to deceit:
Cross References
Joshua 22:22The Lord the most mighty God, the Lord the most mighty God, he knoweth, and Israel also shall understand: If with the design of transgression we have set up this altar, let him not save us, but punish us immediately:
Job 6:2O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance.
Job 27:5God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.
Psalms 7:8and a congregation of people shall surround thee. And for their sakes return thou on high.
Psalms 26:1Unto the end, a psalm for David. Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in my innocence: and I have put my trust in the Lord, and shall not be weakened.
Proverbs 16:11Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag.
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 →