Job 31:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

(Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 7:8-9 : 8 The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward. 9 O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.
  • Ps 17:2-3 : 2 Be my judge; for your eyes see what is right. 3 You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night; you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me; I will keep my mouth from sin.
  • Dan 5:27 : 27 Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight.
  • Mic 6:11 : 11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
  • Matt 7:23 : 23 And then will I say to them, I never had knowledge of you: go from me, you workers of evil.
  • 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 But God's strong base is unchanging, having this sign, The Lord has knowledge of those who are his: and, Let everyone by whom the name of the Lord is named be turned away from evil.
  • Ps 26:1 : 1 <Of David.> O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.
  • Ps 139:23 : 23 O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:
  • Prov 16:11 : 11 True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
  • Isa 26:7 : 7 The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.
  • Josh 22:22 : 22 God, even God the Lord, God, even God the Lord, he sees, and Israel will see--if it is in pride or in sin against the Lord,
  • 1 Sam 2:3 : 3 Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.
  • Job 6:2 : 2 If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!
  • Job 27:5-6 : 5 Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness. 6 I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.
  • Ps 1:6 : 6 Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.

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    7If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

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    1<Of David.> O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

    2Put me in the scales, O Lord, so that I may be tested; let the fire make clean my thoughts and my heart.

  • Ps 26:11
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    11But as for me, I will go on in my upright ways: be my saviour, and have mercy on me.

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    1And Job made answer and said,

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    5Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness.

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    21For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.

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    2Be my judge; for your eyes see what is right.

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    8The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.

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    28Now then, let your eyes be turned to me, for truly I will not say what is false to your face.

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    5For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

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    28That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.

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    23O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:

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    1Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.

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    3O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

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    11True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.

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    23And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

    24Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.

  • Job 23:7
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    7There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

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    12And as for me, you are my support in my righteousness, giving me a place before your face for ever.

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    24And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

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    7The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.

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    21For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

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    22May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.

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