Job 27:5
Good News Translation
I will never say that you men are right; I will insist on my innocence to my dying day.

New Revised Standard Version
Far be it from me to say that you are right; until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

Contemporary English Version
Until the day I die, I will refuse to do wrong by saying you are right,

New American Bible
Far be it from me to account you right; till I die I will not renounce my innocence.

Douay-Rheims Bible
God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.

justify

Job 32:3 And he was angry with his friends, because they had not found a reasonable answer, but only had condemned Job.

Job 42:7 And after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite: My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends, because you have not spoken the thing that is right before me, as my servant Job hath.

Deuteronomy 25:1 If there be a controversy between men, and they call upon the judges: they shall give the prize of justice to him whom they perceive to be just: and him whom they find to be wicked, they shall condemn of wickedness.

Proverbs 17:15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable before God.

Galatians 2:11 But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

I will not

Job 2:9 And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy simplicity? bless God and die.

Job 13:15 Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.

Job 29:14 I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

Context
Job Affirms His Integrity
4My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying. 5God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.6My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.…
Cross References
Job 2:3
And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence? But thou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without cause.

Job 6:29
Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that which is just, judge ye.

Job 13:15
Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.

Job 29:14
I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.

Job 31:6
Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.

Job 32:1
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he seemed just to himself.

Job 32:2
And Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite of the kindred of Ram, was angry and was moved to indignation: now he was angry against Job, because he said he was just before God.

Job 27:4
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