Job 27:6 · KJV
“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 27:6
God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
Job 27 — Context
My 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.
8For what {is} the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
Cross References
Job 2:3
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that {there is} none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause. {to destroy...: Heb. to swallow him up}
1 John 3:20-21
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
Acts 24:16
And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and {toward} men.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
Proverbs 4:13
Take fast hold of instruction; let {her} not go: keep her; for she {is} thy life.
Psalms 18:20-23
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.