Now 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.

Job 31:6 Parallel Commentaries

Let me be weighed in an even balance. Heb. Let him weigh me in balances of justice

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Psalm 7:8,9 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity that is in me...

Psalm 17:2,3 Let my sentence come forth from your presence; let your eyes behold the things that are equal...

Psalm 26:1 Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in my integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.

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

Joshua 22:22 The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knows, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion...

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:

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

2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The Lord knows them that are his. And...