(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

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  • WEB World English Bible

    (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

  • KJV King James Version

    Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know mine integrity —

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Cross-references (15)

Passages linked to Job 31:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Psalms 7:8-9 Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me. Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
  • Daniel 5:27 TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
  • 1 Samuel 2:3 “Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.
  • Isaiah 26:7 The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.
  • Matthew 7:23 Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
  • Joshua 22:22 “The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),
  • Job 6:2 “Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
  • Job 27:5-6 Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me. I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.
  • Psalms 1:6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
  • Psalms 17:2-3 Let my sentence come out of your presence. Let your eyes look on equity. You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
  • Psalms 139:23 Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
  • Proverbs 16:11 Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.
  • Micah 6:11 Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
  • 2 Timothy 2:19 However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
  • Psalms 26:1 Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

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Explain this verse (12 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain He showeth wherein his uprightness standeth, that is, inasmuch…

He showeth wherein his uprightness standeth, that is, inasmuch as he was blameless before men, and sinned not against the second Table.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 31:6 Let me be weighed in an even…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain This is either,
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain If my step hath turned out of the way,....…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Let me - I desire nothing more than to…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 6. Mine integrity.] תמתי tummathi, my perfection; the…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Let me be weighed in an even balance -…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Simplicity, and "uprightness." Tummathi. (Haydock)
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Parenthetical. Translate: "Oh, that God would weigh me .…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 6. Let me be weighed, etc. — Literally, let…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. A solemn assertion before God the judge that…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Let me be weighed in an even balance; literally,…

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