Job 27:5
Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
World English Bible Classic
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
4surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:1If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.
Job 13:15Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
Job 32:3Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Job 42:7It was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
2 Corinthians 1:12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved 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 →