Job 27:6
My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
5God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.
7Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.
Cross References
Job 2:3And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple, and upright, and fearing Cod, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence ? But thou hast moved me against him, that I sho uld afflict him without cause.
Job 31:7If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:
Proverbs 4:13Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life.
2 Corinthians 12:11I am become foolish: you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you: for I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be 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 →