Job 31:6
Good News Translation
Let God weigh me on honest scales, and he will see how innocent I am.

New Revised Standard Version
let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!—

Contemporary English Version
and I beg God to prove my innocence.

New American Bible
Let God weigh me in the scales of justice; thus will he know my innocence!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.

Let me be weighed in an even balance.

1 Samuel 2:3 Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boasting: let old matters depart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to him are thoughts prepared.

Psalm 7:8,9 The Lord judgeth the people. Judge me, O Lord, according to my justice, and according to my innocence in me. . . .

Psalm 17:2,3 Let my judgment come forth from thy countenance: let thy eyes behold the things that are equitable. . . .

Psalm 26:1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in my innocence: and I have put my trust in the Lord, and shall not be weakened.

Proverbs 16:11 Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag.

Isaiah 26:7 The way of the just is right, the path of the just is right to walk in.

Daniel 5:27 THECEL: thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting.

Micah 6:11 Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the bag?

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Joshua 22:22 The Lord the most mighty God, the Lord the most mighty God, he knoweth, and Israel also shall understand: If with the design of transgression we have set up this altar, let him not save us, but punish us immediately:

Psalm 1:6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 139:23 Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.

Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.

2 Timothy 2:19 But the sure foundation of God standeth firm, having this seal: the Lord knoweth who are his; and let every one depart from iniquity who nameth the name of the Lord.

Context
Job's Final Appeal
5If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit: 6Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.7If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:…
Cross References
Job 6:2
O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance.

Job 6:3
As the sand of the sea, this would appear heavier: therefore, my words are full of sorrow:

Job 23:10
But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire:

Job 27:5
God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.

Job 27:6
My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.

Job 32:1
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he seemed just to himself.

Psalm 139:23
Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.

Daniel 5:27
THECEL: thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting.

Job 31:5
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