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New Century Version

Job 31:6

then let God weigh me on honest scales. Then he will know I have done nothing wrong.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Balances;   Falsehood;   Integrity;   Temptation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Balances, Divine;   Divine;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Weights;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Money;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Balance;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Balances;   Honesty;   Job, the Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Balances;   Job, Book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Balances;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Butter;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Integrity;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Balance;   Didascalia;   Right and Righteousness;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
let God weigh me on accurate scales,and he will recognize my integrity.
Hebrew Names Version
(Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know my integrity);
King James Version
Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
English Standard Version
(Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)
New English Translation
let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.
Amplified Bible
Oh, let Him weigh me with accurate scales, And let God know my integrity.
New American Standard Bible
Let Him weigh me with accurate scales, And let God know my integrity.
World English Bible
(Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know my integrity);
Geneva Bible (1587)
Let God weigh me in the iust balance, and he shal know mine vprightnes.
Legacy Standard Bible
Let Him weigh me with just scales,And let God know my integrity.
Berean Standard Bible
let God weigh me with honest scales, and He will know my integrity.
Contemporary English Version
and I beg God to prove my innocence.
Complete Jewish Bible
then let me be weighed on an honest scale, so that God will know my integrity.
Darby Translation
(Let me be weighed in an even balance, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)
Easy-to-Read Version
If God would use accurate scales, he would know that I am innocent.
George Lamsa Translation
Let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know my integrity.
Good News Translation
Let God weigh me on honest scales, and he will see how innocent I am.
Lexham English Bible
let him weigh me in the balance of justice, and let God know my blamelessness.
Literal Translation
let me be weighed in a just balance so that God may know my integrity.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
let me be weyed in an eauen balaunce, that God maye se my innocency.
American Standard Version
(Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity);
Bible in Basic English
(Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know mine integrity--
King James Version (1611)
Let me bee weighed in an euen ballance, that God may know mine integritie.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let me be wayed in an euen balaunce, that God may see myne innocencie.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
(for I am weighed in a just balance, and the Lord knows my innocence:)
English Revised Version
(Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity;)
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
God weie me in a iust balaunce, and knowe my symplenesse.
Update Bible Version
(Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know my integrity);
Webster's Bible Translation
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.
New King James Version
Let me be weighed on honest scales, That God may know my integrity.
New Living Translation
Let God weigh me on the scales of justice, for he knows my integrity.
New Life Bible
let Him weigh me with a true weight. Let God know that I am honest.
New Revised Standard
let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!—
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let him weigh me in balances of righteousness, - and let GOD take note of mine integrity!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.
Revised Standard Version
(Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)
Young's Literal Translation
He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Let Him weigh me with accurate scales, And let God know my integrity.

Contextual Overview

1 "But I made an agreement with my eyes not to look with desire at a girl. 2 What has God above promised for people? What has the Almighty planned from on high? 3 It is ruin for evil people and disaster for those who do wrong. 4 God sees my ways and counts every step I take. 5 "If I have been dishonest or lied to others, 6 then let God weigh me on honest scales. Then he will know I have done nothing wrong. 7 If I have turned away from doing what is right, or my heart has been led by my eyes to do wrong, or my hands have been made unclean, 8 then let other people eat what I have planted, and let my crops be plowed up.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Let me be weighed in an even balance: Heb. Let him weigh me in balances of justice, 1 Samuel 2:3, Psalms 7:8, Psalms 7:9, Psalms 17:2, Psalms 17:3, Psalms 26:1, Proverbs 16:11, Isaiah 26:7, Daniel 5:27, Micah 6:11

know: Joshua 22:22, Psalms 1:6, Psalms 139:23, Matthew 7:23, 2 Timothy 2:19

Reciprocal: Job 10:7 - Thou knowest

Cross-References

Genesis 30:29
Jacob answered, "You know that I have worked hard for you, and your flocks have grown while I cared for them.
Genesis 31:5
He said to them, "I have seen that your father is not as friendly with me as he used to be, but the God of my father has been with me.
Genesis 31:8
When Laban said, ‘You can have all the speckled animals as your pay,' all the animals gave birth to speckled young ones. But when he said, ‘You can have all the streaked animals as your pay,' all the flocks gave birth to streaked babies.
Genesis 31:9
So God has taken the animals away from your father and has given them to me.
Genesis 31:10
"I had a dream during the season when the flocks were mating. I saw that the only male goats who were mating were streaked, speckled, or spotted.
Genesis 31:22
Three days later Laban learned that Jacob had run away,
Genesis 31:25
So Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had made his camp in the mountains, so Laban and his relatives set up their camp in the mountains of Gilead.
Genesis 31:38
I have worked for you now for twenty years. During all that time none of the lambs and kids died during birth, and I have not eaten any of the male sheep from your flocks.
Genesis 31:42
But the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac, was with me. Otherwise, you would have sent me away with nothing. But he saw the trouble I had and the hard work I did, and last night he corrected you."
1 Peter 2:18
Slaves, yield to the authority of your masters with all respect, not only those who are good and kind, but also those who are dishonest.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let me be weighed in an even balance,.... Or "in balances of righteousness" z, even in the balance or strict justice, the justice of God; he was so conscious to himself that he had done no injustice to any man in his dealings with them, that, if weight of righteousness, which was to be, and was the rule of his conduct between man and man, was put into one scale, and his actions into another, the balance would be even, there would be nothing wanting, or, however, that would require any severe censure:

that God may know mine integrity; God did knew his integrity, and bore a testimony to it, and to his retaining it, Job 2:3; but his meaning is, that should God strictly inquire into his life and conduct with respect to his dealings with men, as it would appear that he had lived in all good conscience to that day, so he doubted not but he would find his integrity such, that he would own and acknowledge it, approve of it, and commend it, and make it known to his friends and others, whereby he would be cleared of all those calumnies that were cast upon him. Some connect these words with the following, reading them affirmatively, "God knows mine integrity"; he knows that my step has not turned out of the way of truth and righteousness; that my heart has not walked after mine eye, in lustful thoughts and desires; and that there is no spoil, nor rapine, nor violence in my hand, that I should deserve such a punishment as to sow, and another eat: thus Sephorno.

z במאזני צדק "in bilancibus justitiae", Montanus, Mercerus, Drusius, so Junius & Tremellius, Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let me be weighed in an even balance - Margin, him weigh me in balances of justice. That is, let him ascertain exactly my character, and treat me accordingly. If on trial it be found that I am guilty in this respect, I consent to be punished accordingly. Scales or balances are often used as emblematic of justice. Many suppose, however, that this verse is a parenthesis, and that the imprecation in Job 31:8, relates to Job 31:5, as well as to Job 31:7. But most probably the meaning is, that he consented to have his life tried in this respect in the most exact and rigid manner, and was willing to abide the result. A man may express such a consciousness of integrity in his dealings with others, without any improper self-reliance or boasting. It may be a simple fact of which he may be certain, that he has never meant to defraud any man.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 31:6. Mine integrity. — תמתי tummathi, my perfection; the totality of my unblameable life.


 
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