Parallel Verses English Standard Version (Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!) King James Bible Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. American Standard Version (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity); Douay-Rheims Bible Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity. English Revised Version (Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity;) Webster's Bible Translation Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity. Job 31:6 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentNow for the first time he speaks of his disfigurement by leprosy in particular: my skin (עורי, masc., as it is also used in Job 19:26, only apparently as fem.) is become black (nigruit) from me, i.e., being become black, has peeled from me, and my bones (עצמי, construed as fem. like Job 19:20; Psalm 102:6) are consumed, or put in a glow (חרה, Milel, from חרר, as Ezekiel 24:11) by a parching heat. Thus, then, his harp became mournful, and his pipe (ועגבי with ג raphatum) the cry of the weepers; the cheerful music (comp. Job 21:12) has been turned into gloomy weeping and sobbing (comp. Lamentations 5:15). Thus the second part of the monologue closes. It is somewhat lengthened and tedious; it is Job's last sorrowful lament before the catastrophe. What a delicate touch of the poet is it that he makes this lament, Job 30:31, die away so melodiously! One hears the prolonged vibration of its elegiac strains. The festive and joyous music is hushed; the only tones are tones of sadness and lament, mesto, flebile. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Let me be weighed in an even balance. Heb. Let him weigh me in balances of justice Proverbs 16:11 A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights of the bag are his work. Isaiah 26:7 The way of the just is uprightness: you, most upright, do weigh the path of the just. Daniel 5:27 TEKEL; You are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting. Micah 6:11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? know Psalm 1:6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. Psalm 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: Cross References Job 6:2 "Oh that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! Job 6:3 For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash. Job 23:10 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold. Job 27:5 Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me. Job 27:6 I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days. Job 32:1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. Psalm 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! Jump to Previous Accurate Balance Blameless Honest Integrity Measured Righteousness Scales Upright Weigh WeighedJump to Next Accurate Balance Blameless Honest Integrity Measured Righteousness Scales Upright Weigh WeighedLinks Job 31:6 NIVJob 31:6 NLT Job 31:6 ESV Job 31:6 NASB Job 31:6 KJV Job 31:6 Bible Apps Job 31:6 Biblia Paralela Job 31:6 Chinese Bible Job 31:6 French Bible Job 31:6 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |