Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may see my innocence.
New American Standard Bible
And let God know
King James Version
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
Holman Bible
and He will recognize my integrity.
International Standard Version
let my righteousness be weighed in honest scales, and God will make known my integrity.
A Conservative Version
(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
American Standard Version
(Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity);
Amplified
Oh, let Him weigh me with accurate scales,
And let God know my integrity.
Bible in Basic English
(Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)
Darby Translation
(Let me be weighed in an even balance, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)
Julia Smith Translation
He shall weigh me in balances of justice, and God will know mine integrity.
King James 2000
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.
Lexham Expanded Bible
let him weigh me in [the] balance of justice, and let God know my blamelessness.
Modern King James verseion
let me be weighed in an even balance so that God may know my uprightness.
NET Bible
let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.
New Heart English Bible
(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
The Emphasized Bible
Let him weigh me in balances of righteousness, - and let GOD take note of mine integrity!
Webster
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.
World English Bible
(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
Youngs Literal Translation
He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity.
Themes
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
5 If I have cleaved unto vanity, or if my feet have run to deceive, 6 let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may see my innocence. 7 If so be that I have withdrawn my foot out of the right way, if my heart hath followed mine eyesight, if I have stained or defiled my hands,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Daniel 5:27
Tekel, thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting:
Joshua 22:22
"The mighty God Jehovah, he knoweth, and Israel shall know if; it be to rebel or transgress against the LORD, then the LORD save us not this day.
1 Samuel 2:3
Let go your great boasting of high things, let go out of your mouth that old byword: for the LORD is a God that knoweth all things, and judgeth the thoughts.
Job 6:2
For then should it be heavier than the sand of the sea.
Job 27:5-6
God forbid, that I should grant your cause to be right! As for me, until mine end come will I never go from my innocence.
Psalm 1:6
For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Psalm 7:8-9
The LORD shall judge the people; give sentence with me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to the innocence that is in me.
Psalm 17:2-3
Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; and let thine eyes look upon the thing that is equal.
Psalm 26:1
{A Psalm of David} Be thou my Judge, O LORD, for I walk innocently. My trust hath been also in the LORD; therefore shall I not fall.
Psalm 139:23
Try me, O God, and seek the ground of mine heart; prove me, and examine my thoughts.
Proverbs 16:11
A true measure and a true balance are the LORD's; he maketh all weights.
Isaiah 26:7
The path of equity wilt thou grant unto the just, O thou most righteous; thou shalt order the path of him that is righteous.
Micah 6:11
Or should I justify the false balances and the bag of deceitful weights,
Matthew 7:23
And then will I knowledge unto them, that I never knew them: 'Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity.'
2 Timothy 2:19
But the sure ground of God remaineth, and hath this seal: the Lord knoweth them that are his, and let every man that calleth on the name of Christ, depart from iniquity.