Job 31:6

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

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
weighed	יִשְׁקְלֵ֥נִי yish.ke.Le.ni	H8254	to suspend or poise (especially in trade) · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix
even	צֶ֑דֶק Tze.dek	H6664	the right (natural · noun, common masculine singular absolute
balance	בְמֹאזְנֵי ve.mo.ze.nei-	H3976	(only in the dual) a pair of scales · preposition + noun, common masculine dual construct
God	אֱ֝ל֗וֹהַּ 'e.Lo.ah	H433	a deity or the Deity · noun, common masculine singular absolute
know	וְיֵדַ֥ע ve.ye.Da'	H3045	to know (properly · conjunction + verb, qal, 3rd person masculine singular
integrity	תֻּמָּתִֽי tu.ma.Ti	H8538	innocence · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

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.
Daniel 5:27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
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 weig…
Isaiah 26:7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Joshua 22:22 The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the…
Job 6:2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Job 27:5-6 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 31:1-8

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 inviolably faithful to the marriage bed, though his wife was none of the wisest, best, or kindest. From the beginning it was so, that a man should have but one wife and cleave to her only; and Job kept closely to that institution and abhorred the thought of transgressing it; for, though his greatness m…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 31:6

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

John Gill on Job 31:6

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…

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Keil & Delitzsch on Job 31:5-8

5 If I had intercourse with falsehood, And my foot hastened after deceit: 6 Let Him weigh me in the balances of justice, And let Eloah know my innocence. 7 If my steps turned aside from the way, And my heart followed mine eyes, And any spot hath cleaved to my hands: 8 May I sow and another eat, And let my shoots be rooted out. We have translated שׁוא (on the form vid., on Job 15:31, and the idea on Job 11:11) falsehood, for it signifies desolateness and hollowness under a concealing mask, therefore the contradiction between what is without and within, lying and deceit, parall. מרמה, deceit, delusion, imposition. The phrase הלך עם־שׁוא is based on the personification of deceit, or on thinking…

The Church Fathers

There is in my way of life, even in its details, as much exactness as in the arm [of a balance]. I have not overlooked the smallest detail. For this, I do not appeal to the testimony of a mortal, who may want to please and ignores many things, but to the testimony of God, who accurately knows all that is hidden and to whom nothing can escape.
— John Chrysostom, COMMENTARY ON JOB 31:6A-7

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Balance — Occurs in Lev. 19:36 and Isa. 46:6, as the rendering of the Hebrew kanch’, which properly means “a reed” or “a cane,” then a rod or beam of a balance. This same word is translated “measuring reed” in…
Balances · Used for weighing — Used for weighing
Falsehood · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Integrity · 16:19,20; — 16:19,20;
Weights · Were frequently used in scales or balances — Were frequently used in scales or balances

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Job 31:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 31:1-8

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 31:6

John Gill on Job 31:6

Keil & Delitzsch on Job 31:5-8

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Job 31:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 31:1-8

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 31:6

John Gill on Job 31:6

Keil & Delitzsch on Job 31:5-8

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Job 31:5-8

Rashi on Job 31:5