Job 27:6
I will not forsake my justification, which I have just begun to grasp, for my heart does not find blame for me in my whole life.
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In Context
7Let the impious be as my enemy, and the sinful, as my adversary.
Cross References
Job 2:3And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you not considered my servant, Job, that there is no one like him in the land, a simple and honest man, fearing God and withdrawing from evil, and still retaining his innocence? Yet you have stirred me against him, so that I would afflict him to no purpose.”
Job 31:7If my steps have turned aside from the way, or if my heart has followed my eyes, or if a blemish has clung to my hands,
Proverbs 4:13Take hold of discipline. Do not dismiss it. Guard it, for it is your life.
2 Corinthians 12:11I have become foolish; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you. For I have been nothing less than those who claim to be above the measure of Apostles, even though I am nothing.
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 →