Let Him weigh me with accurate scales, And let God know my integrity.
Parallel translations
- WEB (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
- KJV Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine 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.
- 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
Cross-references · 15
- Ps 7:8–9Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
- Dan 5:27TEKEL; you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
- 1 Sam 2:3“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.
- Matt 7:23Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
- Isa 26:7The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.
- Ps 17:2–3Let my sentence come out of your presence. Let your eyes look on equity.
- Ps 139:23Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
- Josh 22:22“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),
- Mic 6:11Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
- Ps 1:6For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
- Job 27:5–6Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
- Job 6:2“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
- Prov 16:11Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.
- 2 Tim 2:19However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
- Ps 26:1By David. Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
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