Job 27:5 · KJV
“God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.”
— Job 27:5
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach {me} so long as I live. {so long...: Heb. from my days}
Job 27 — Context
All the while my breath {is} in me, and the spirit of God {is} in my nostrils; {the spirit...: that is, the breath which God gave him}
4My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
5God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
6My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach {me} so long as I live. {so long...: Heb. from my days}
7Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
Cross References
Job 2:9
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
Job 13:15
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. {maintain: Heb. prove, or, argue}
Job 42:7
And 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}.
Proverbs 17:15
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both {are} abomination to the LORD.
Deuteronomy 25:1
If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that {the judges} may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment {was} as a robe and a diadem.
Job 32:3
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and {yet} had condemned Job.
Galatians 2:11
But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.