Job 6:29
Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
In Context
28But now, please look at me. Would I lie to your face?
30Is there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?
Cross References
Job 23:10Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
Job 34:5For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
Malachi 3:18So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
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 →