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Job 31:6
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let God weigh me on accurate scales,and he will recognize my integrity.
(Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know my integrity);
Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
(Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)
then let God weigh me on honest scales. Then he will know I have done nothing wrong.
let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.
Oh, let Him weigh me with accurate scales, And let God know my integrity.
Let Him weigh me with accurate scales, And let God know my integrity.
(Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know my integrity);
Let God weigh me in the iust balance, and he shal know mine vprightnes.
Let Him weigh me with just scales,And let God know my integrity.
let God weigh me with honest scales, and He will know my integrity.
and I beg God to prove my innocence.
then let me be weighed on an honest scale, so that God will know my integrity.
(Let me be weighed in an even balance, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)
If God would use accurate scales, he would know that I am innocent.
Let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know my integrity.
Let God weigh me on honest scales, and he will see how innocent I am.
let him weigh me in the balance of justice, and let God know my blamelessness.
let me be weighed in a just balance so that God may know my integrity.
let me be weyed in an eauen balaunce, that God maye se my innocency.
(Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity);
(Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)
Let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know mine integrity--
Let me bee weighed in an euen ballance, that God may know mine integritie.
Let me be wayed in an euen balaunce, that God may see myne innocencie.
(for I am weighed in a just balance, and the Lord knows my innocence:)
(Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity;)
God weie me in a iust balaunce, and knowe my symplenesse.
(Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know my integrity);
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.
Let me be weighed on honest scales, That God may know my integrity.
let Him weigh me with a true weight. Let God know that I am honest.
let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!—
Let him weigh me in balances of righteousness, - and let GOD take note of mine integrity!
Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.
(Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)
He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity.
Let Him weigh me with accurate scales, And let God know my integrity.
Contextual Overview
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
Jacob replied, "You know how hard I've worked for you, and how your flocks and herds have grown under my care.
He said to them, "I have noticed that your father's attitude toward me has changed. But the God of my father has been with me.
For if he said, ‘The speckled animals will be your wages,' the whole flock began to produce speckled young. And when he changed his mind and said, ‘The striped animals will be your wages,' then the whole flock produced striped young.
In this way, God has taken your father's animals and given them to me.
"One time during the mating season, I had a dream and saw that the male goats mating with the females were streaked, speckled, and spotted.
Three days later, Laban was told that Jacob had fled.
Laban caught up with Jacob as he was camped in the hill country of Gilead, and he set up his camp not far from Jacob's.
"For twenty years I have been with you, caring for your flocks. In all that time your sheep and goats never miscarried. In all those years I never used a single ram of yours for food.
In fact, if the God of my father had not been on my side—the God of Abraham and the fearsome God of Isaac—you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen your abuse and my hard work. That is why he appeared to you last night and rebuked you!"
You who are slaves must submit to your masters with all respect. Do what they tell you—not only if they are kind and reasonable, but even if they are cruel.
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.
