Job 27:5
God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:1If there be a controversy between men, and they call upon the judges: they shall give the prize of justice to him whom they perceive to be just: and him whom they find to be wicked, they shall condemn of wickedness.
Job 13:15Although he should bill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.
Job 29:14I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.
Job 32:3And he was angry with his friends because they had not found a reasonable answer, but only had condemned Job.
Job 42:7And after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite : My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends, because you have not spoken the thing that is right before my, as my servant Job hath.
2 Corinthians 1:12For our glory is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards 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 →