Job 6:29
Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again — my righteousness [is] in it.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
In Context
28And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie?
30Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?
Cross References
Job 23:10For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me — as gold I go forth.
Job 34:5For Job hath said, 'I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,
Malachi 3:18And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.
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 →