Job 27:5
God forbid that I should acknowledge you to be just: To my last breath will I assert my integrity.
Noyes Bible
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
4Never shall my lips speak falsehood, Nor my tongue utter deceit.
6I will hold fast my innocence, and not let it go; My heart reproacheth me for no part of my life.
Cross References
Job 13:15Lo! he slayeth me, and I have no hope! Yet will I justify my ways before him.
Job 29:14I clothed myself with righteousness, and it clothed itself with me; And justice was my robe and diadem.
Job 32:3Against his three friends also was his wrath kindled, because they had not found an answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Job 42:7And when Jehovah had spoken these words unto Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken concerning me that which is right, as hath my servant Job.
2 Corinthians 1:12For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and the sincerity which is of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially 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 →