4 Bible Verses about Weighing The Immaterial

“Oh, that my grief could actually be weighed
And placed in the balances together with my tragedy [to see if my grief is the grief of a coward]!

“For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea;
Therefore my words have been incoherent,

All the ways of a man are clean and innocent in his own eyes [and he may see nothing wrong with his actions],
But the Lord weighs and examines the motives and intents [of the heart and knows the truth].

Oh, let Him weigh me with accurate scales,
And let God know my integrity.

‘tekel’—you have been weighed on the scales [of righteousness] and found deficient;