Job 31:6
let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
Majority Standard Bible
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 falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,
Cross References
Joshua 22:22“The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! He knows, and may Israel also know. If this was in rebellion or breach of faith against the LORD, do not spare us today.
Job 6:2“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
Job 27:5I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die.
Psalms 7:8The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.
Psalms 26:1Of David. Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
Proverbs 16:11Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are His concern.
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 →