Job 27:5
Defilement to me—if I justify you, || Until I expire I do not turn aside my integrity from me.
Literal Standard 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 do not speak perverseness, || And my tongue does not utter deceit.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:1“When there is a strife between men, and they have come near to the judgment, and they have judged, and declared righteous the righteous, and declared wrong the wrongdoer,
Job 13:15Behold, He slays me—I do not wait! Only, I argue my ways to His face.
Job 29:14I have put on righteousness, and it clothes me, || My justice as a robe and a crown.
Job 32:3and his anger has burned against his three friends, because that they have not found an answer, and condemn Job.
Job 42:7And it comes to pass after YHWH’s speaking these words to Job, that YHWH says to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger has burned against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken correctly concerning Me, like My servant Job.
2 Corinthians 1:12For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the 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 →