Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 31:6
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Job31:6
6. Let me be weighed in an even balance , that God may know mine integrity .
This is either 1. an Imprecation; or rather 2. a Submission to tryal, as the following words shew. The sense is, I am so far from being conscious to my self of any hypocrisie or secret wickedness whereby I have brought these unusual judgments upon my self, as you traduce me, that I desire nothing more than to have my heart and life weighed in just Balances, and searched out by the all-seeing God.
Heb. and let him know (i. e. let him acknowledge and shew that he knoweth and approveth: or let him make known to my Friends and others who censure or condemn me. Or, and he will know; i. e. upon search he will find out: which is spoken of God after the manner of men:) mine integrity. So this is an appeal to God to be witness of his sincerity, and to vindicate him from the imputation of hypocrisie.
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