Job 31:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 31

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⁶Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

Job 31:6 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 5:27
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
Psalms 7:8-9
The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me. …
Matthew 7:23
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
1 Samuel 2:3
Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Isaiah 26:7
The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Balances Conscience Conscientiousness Deceit Deception Faith False Teachers

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

The lusts of the flesh, and the love of the world, are the two fatal rocks on which multitudes split; against these Job protests he was always careful to stand upon his guard. I. Against the lusts of the flesh. He not only kept himself clear from adultery, from defiling his neighbour’s wives (Job 31:9), but from all lewdness with any women whatsoever. He kept no concubine, no mistress, but was inv…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. Parenthetical. Translate: “Oh, that God would weigh me ... then would He know,” &c.