6Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
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TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me. …
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
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.
The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
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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…
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