Job 27:5
Pollution to me — if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me.
Young's Literal Translation
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
4My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:1'When there is a strife between men, and they have come nigh unto the judgment, and they have judged, and declared righteous the righteous, and declared wrong the wrong-doer,
Job 13:15Lo, He doth slay me — I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.
Job 29:14Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice.
Job 32:3and against his three friends hath his anger burned, because that they have not found an answer, and condemn Job.
Job 42:7And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, 'Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.
2 Corinthians 1:12For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct 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 →