Job 31:6
I request only that God judge me fairly [MET], and if he does that, he will know that I ◄am innocent/have not done what is wrong►.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
In Context
5“I solemnly declare that I have never acted wickedly and have never tried to deceive people.
Cross References
Joshua 22:22“Yahweh, the Almighty God, knows why we did that, and we want you to know, too. If we have done something wrong against Yahweh, you may kill us.
Job 6:2“If all my troubles and misery could be put on a scale and weighed,
Job 27:5I will never admit that what you three have said is true; until the day that I die, I will insist that I have not done things that are wrong.
Psalms 7:8Yahweh, judge the people of all nations! And, Yahweh, show that I have done nothing that is wrong.
Psalms 26:1Yahweh, show that I ◄am innocent/have not done what is wrong►. I always do what is right; I have trusted in you and never doubted that you would help me.
Proverbs 16:11Yahweh wants us to use scales that are correct; the weights in his bag are correct, because he made them.
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 →