Job 31:6
(let me be weighed in an even balance,that God may know my integrity);
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
In Context
5"If I have walked with falsehood,and my foot has hurried to deceit
Cross References
Joshua 22:22"The Mighty One, God, the Lord, the Mighty One, God, the Lord, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against the Lord (do not save us this day),
Job 6:2"Oh that my anguish were weighed,and all my calamity laid in the balances!
Job 27:5Far be it from me that I should justify you.Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
Psalms 7:8The Lord administers judgment to the peoples.Judge me, Lord, according to my righteousness,and to my integrity that is in me.
Psalms 26:1By David.Judge me, Lord, for I have walked in my integrity.I have trusted also in Lord without wavering.
Proverbs 16:11Honest balances and scales are the Lord's;all the weights 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 →