Job 27:5
Far be it from me that I should judge you to be right, for, until I expire, I will not withdraw from my innocence.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
In Context
4my lips will not speak iniquity, nor will my tongue devise lies.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:1“If there is a case between persons, and they apply to the judges, they shall give the palm of justice to the one whom they perceive to be just, and they shall condemn of impiety the one who is impious.
Job 13:15And now, if he would kill me, I will hope in him; in this, truly, I will correct my ways in his sight.
Job 29:14I put on justice, and I clothed myself with my judgment, like a robe and a diadem.
Job 32:3Moreover, he was indignant with his friends because they had not found a reasonable response, except in so far as they condemned Job.
Job 42:7But after the Lord had finished speaking these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite: My wrath has been kindled against you, and against your two friends, because you have not been speaking correctly in my eyes, as my servant Job has done.
2 Corinthians 1:12For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, which is found in simplicity of heart and in sincerity toward God. And it is not with worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that we have conversed with this world, and more abundantly toward you.
Matthew Henry on Job 27:2-7
Job's Protestation of His Sincerity. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul; 3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; 4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. 5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me. 6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so… Read the whole commentary →