Job 31:6
He weighs me in righteous balances, || And God knows my integrity.
Literal Standard 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 vanity, || And my foot hurries to deceit,
Cross References
Joshua 22:22“The God of gods—YHWH, the God of gods—YHWH, He is knowing, and Israel—he knows, if [we are] in rebellion, and if in trespass against YHWH, do not save us this day!
Job 6:2“O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, || And my calamity in balances || They would lift up together!
Job 27:5Defilement to me—if I justify you, || Until I expire I do not turn aside my integrity from me.
Psalms 7:8YHWH judges the peoples; Judge me, O YHWH, || According to my righteousness, || And according to my integrity [that is] on me.
Psalms 26:1BY DAVID. Judge me, O YHWH, for I have walked in my integrity, || And I have trusted in YHWH, || I do not slide.
Proverbs 16:11A just beam and balances [are] YHWH’s, || All the stones 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 →