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Verse Job 31:6. _MINE INTEGRITY._] תמתי _tummathi_, my perfection;
the totality of my unblameable life....
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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_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.'...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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Job was careful not to lie. Other people may believe a person who
lies. But God always knows the truth....
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יִשְׁקְלֵ֥נִי בְ מֹאזְנֵי ־צֶ֑דֶק וְ
יֵדַ֥ע א
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Simplicity, and "uprightness." Tummathi. (Haydock)_...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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LET ME BE WEIGHED IN AN EVEN BALANCE:
_ Heb._ let him weigh me in balances of Justice...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Job 31:6 weighed H8254 (H8799) honest H6664 scales H3976 God H433 know
H3045 (H8799) integrity H8538
Let me
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 2:3; 2 Timothy 2:19; Daniel 5:27; Isaiah 26:7; Joshua 22:22;...
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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...