Job 27:6
On my righteousness I have laid hold, || And I do not let it go, || My heart does not reproach me while I live.
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In Context
5Defilement to me—if I justify you, || Until I expire I do not turn aside my integrity from me.
7My enemy is as the wicked, || And my withstander as the perverse.
Cross References
Job 2:3And YHWH says to Satan, “Have you set your heart to My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? And still he is keeping hold on his integrity, and you move Me against him to swallow him up for nothing!”
Job 31:7If my step turns aside from the way, || And my heart has gone after my eyes, || And blemish has cleaved to my hands,
Proverbs 4:13Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, || Keep her, for she [is] your life.
2 Corinthians 12:11I have become a fool—boasting; you compelled me; for I ought to have been commended by you, for I was behind the very chiefest apostles in nothing—even if 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 →