KJV King James Version
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Job 31:6
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
WEB World English Bible
(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
ASV American Standard Version
(Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity);
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity.
Surrounding context — Job 31
3 [Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to the workers of iniquity?
4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
8 [Then] let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or [if] I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;
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Psalm 7:8-9The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity [that is] in me.Daniel 5:27TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.Isaiah 26:7The way of the just [is] uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.1 Samuel 2:3Talk 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.Matthew 7:23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.Joshua 22:22The 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 LORD, (save us not this day,)Job 27:5-6God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.Micah 6:11Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?Psalm 17:2-3Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.Proverbs 16:11A just weight and balance [are] the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work.Psalm 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:Psalm 1:6For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.Job 6:2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!2 Timothy 2:19Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.Psalm 26:1[A Psalm] of David. Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; [therefore] I shall not slide.
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