Job 27:5
God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.
Revised Version 1895
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 shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:1If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;
Job 13:15Though he slay me, yet will I wait for him: 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 against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Job 42:7And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
2 Corinthians 1:12For our glorying 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 to you-ward.
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 →