Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
Parallel translations
- WEB (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
- BSB let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
- NKJV Let me be weighed on honest scales, That God may know my integrity.
- NASB Let Him weigh me with accurate scales, And let God know my integrity.
- NLT Let God weigh me on the scales of justice, for he knows my integrity.
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Quick answer
Job asks to be weighed in honest scales so that God may know his integrity. He welcomes God's accurate judgment of his character.
Overview
Continuing his oath, Job invites God to measure him on a just balance, confident that the verdict would confirm his integrity. The image of accurate scales evokes God's perfect and impartial assessment of human conduct. Yet Scripture also warns that none is righteous enough to stand if weighed by the law alone, which is why the gospel offers the perfect righteousness of Christ to all who believe.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 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.
- Dan 5:27TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
- 1 Sam 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.
- Matt 7:23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
- Isa 26:7The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
- Ps 17:2–3Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
- Ps 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
- Josh 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,)
- Mic 6:11Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
- Ps 1:6For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
- Job 27:5–6God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
- Job 6:2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
- Prov 16:11A just weight and balance are the LORD’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.
- 2 Tim 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.
- Ps 26:1Judge 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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