Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Job 31:6
Verse Job 31:6. Mine integrity.] תמתי tummathi, my perfection; the totality of my unblameable life.
Verse Job 31:6. Mine integrity.] תמתי tummathi, my perfection; the totality of my unblameable life.
LET ME BE WEIGHED IN AN EVEN BALANCE - Margin, him weigh me in balances of justice. That is, let him ascertain exactly my character, and treat me accordingly. If on trial it be found that I am guilty...
CHAPTER 31 _ 1. My chastity and righteousness (Job 31:1)_ 2. My philanthropy (Job 31:13) 3. My integrity and hospitality (Job 31:24) 4. Let God and man disprove me ...
JOB 31. THE OATH OF CLEARING. Job's final protestation of his innocence, and appeal to God to judge him. This chapter, says Duhm, is the high-water mark of the OT ethic, higher than the Decalogue or e...
Solemn declaration that neither in him nor in his conduct was there justification for the change, and he is ready to face God (Job 31:1-40) a. He was not lustful. (Job 31:1-8) TEXT 31:1-8 1 I MADE...
_LET ME BE WEIGHED IN AN EVEN BALANCE, THAT GOD MAY KNOW MINE INTEGRITY._ Parenthetical. Translate, 'O that God would weigh me in a balance of justice, then would He know my integrity.'...
JOB PROTESTS THE INNOCENCE OF HIS PAST LIFE Job's virtues are those of a great Arab prince, such as are admired still: namely, blameless family life, consideration for the poor and weak, charity, mod...
EVEN BALANCE] i.e. balances of justice. In the Egyptian Book of the Dead the soul is represented as being weighed in the balance before Osiris at the judgment....
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 31 JOB FINISHES HIS LAST SP...
Job was careful not to lie. Other people may believe a person who lies. But God always knows the truth....
יִשְׁקְלֵ֥נִי בְ מֹאזְנֵי ־צֶ֑דֶק וְ יֵדַ֥ע א
XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1; Job 30:1; Job 31:1 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job looks back to the y...
THE CLEAN LIFE Job 31:1 Job had specially guarded against impurity, for its heritage is one of calamity and disaster. He is sure that even if he were weighed by God Himself there would be no iniquity...
This whole chapter is taken up with Job's solemn oath of innocence. It is ills official answer to the line of argument adopted by his three friends. In the process of his declaration he called on God...
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine (d) integrity. (d) He shows what his uprightness stands in, in as much as he was blameless before men and did not sin against the second t...
_Simplicity, and "uprightness." Tummathi. (Haydock)_...
(2) For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? (3) Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? (4) Doth...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
LET ME BE WEIGHED IN AN EVEN BALANCE,.... Or "in balances of righteousness" z, even in the balance or strict justice, the justice of God; he was so conscious to himself that he had done no injustice t...
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. Ver. 6. _Let me be weighed in an even balance_] Heb. Let him weigh me; Examine me, saith Tremellius. David, with the like confi...
_If I have walked with vanity_ Conversed in the world, or dealt with men, with lying, falsehood, or hypocrisy, as the word _vanity_ is often used; _or if my foot hath hasted to deceit_ If, when I had...
JOB RECOUNTS HIS BLAMELESS CONDUCT...
let me be weighed in an even balance, in a balance of justice, Cf Daniel 5:25, THAT GOD MAY KNOW MINE INTEGRITY, for a careful weighing of the evidence against him would establish the truth of his utt...
Though Job's misery was complete, he returns in this chapter to the defence of his whole life, which was comparatively more virtuous than that of any other man. God had said this to Satan long before...
LET ME BE WEIGHED IN AN EVEN BALANCE: _ Heb._ let him weigh me in balances of Justice...
Job is willing to be measured or weighed by God's standard of righteousness, and he is convinced that he would be viewed as righteous after such an examination. "If he had cheated in weighting out goo...
1-8 Job did not speak the things here recorded by way of boasting, but in answer to the charge of hypocrisy. He understood the spiritual nature of God's commandments, as reaching to the thoughts and...
This is either, 1. An imprecation; or rather, 2. A submission to trial, as the following words show. The sense is, I am so far from being conscious to myself of any hypocrisy or secret wickedness, wh...
Job 31:6 weighed H8254 (H8799) honest H6664 scales H3976 God H433 know H3045 (H8799) integrity H8538 Let me
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He insists on his integrity. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: An upright heart does not dread a scrutiny. A good man is willing to know the worst of himse...
Job 31:1. _A maid._ The LXX, followed by the Chaldaic, read virgin; but our English version has the most ancient support. Job was pure and spotless in conversation with women. He abhorred seduction, a...
_I made a covenant with mine eyes._ GUARD THE SENSES Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan’s landing places, especially the eye and the ear. (_W. Gurnall._) METHODS OF MORAL...
_JOB’S SELF-VINDICATION.—HIS SOLILOQUY CONTINUED_ Concludes his speeches by a solemn, particular, and extended declaration of the purity and uprightness of his life. Especial reference to his _private...
EXPOSITION The conclusion of Job's long speech (ch. 26-31.) is now reached. He winds it up by a solemn vindication of himself from all the charges of wicked conduct which have been alleged or insinuat...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Job, chapter 31. Job has pretty well talked down all of his friends. Bildad has had his last word and Job is still responding, and has been responding, actua...
1 Samuel 2:3; 2 Timothy 2:19; Daniel 5:27; Isaiah 26:7; Joshua 22:22;...
Let me — I desire nothing more than to have my heart and life weighed in just balances, and searched out by the all — seeing God. That God — Or, and he will know; (upon search he will find out: which...