Job 6:29
Reply, I pray you, let there be no perversity, Yea reply even yet, my vindication is in it!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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, be pleased to turn to me, that it may be, to your faces, if I speak falsehood,
30Is there, in my tongue, perversity? Or can, my sense, not discern, engulfing ruin?
Cross References
Job 23:10But, he, knoweth the way that I choose, Having tried me, as gold, I shall come forth.
Job 34:5For Job hath said—I am righteous, But, GOD, hath turned away my right;
Malachi 3:18So shall ye return, and see the difference, between the righteous and the lawless,—between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him 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 →