Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 31:6 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 6. 6Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
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Role in This Section
Job voices the appeal or command “Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity” within Job Swears an Oath about Desire, Deceit, and Integrity.
Read It With
- Job 31:1–31:8
The line at Job 31:6 is one step in Job 31:1–31:8. Job voices the appeal or command “Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity” within Job Swears an Oath about Desire, Deceit, and Integrity. Its force depends on who speaks and what follows.
Why It Needs Context
Keep the line with Job 31:1–31:8. Job voices the appeal or command “Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity” within Job Swears an Oath about Desire, Deceit, and Integrity. The speaker distinction and this limit govern it: The covenant language concerns Job's discipline and cannot be used to blame those subjected to unwanted attention or to reduce integrity to private sexuality.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Job 31:1–31:8 — Job Swears an Oath about Desire, Deceit, and IntegritySources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 31:1–31:8, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 31:1–31:8
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