Job 6:29
Please turn back, let it not be perverseness, || Indeed, turn back again—my righteousness [is] in it.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
In Context
28And now, please, look on me, || Even to your face do I lie?
30Is there perverseness in my tongue? Does my palate not discern calamity?”
Cross References
Job 23:10For He has known the way with me, || He has tried me—I go forth as gold.
Job 34:5For Job has said, I have been righteous, || And God has turned aside my right,
Malachi 3:18And you have turned back and considered, || Between the righteous and the wicked, || Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.”
Matthew Henry on Job 6:23-30
22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance? 23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty? 24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. 25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? 26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? 27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. 28 Now therefore be content, look… Read the whole commentary →