Job 27:5

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die.”

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BSBPD

“I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Far be it from me that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Pollution to me--if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 27:5 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 25:1If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned.
  2. Job 2:9Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”
  3. Job 13:15Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
  4. Job 17:9Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
  5. Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.
  6. Job 31:7If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,
  7. Job 32:3and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
  8. Job 33:9‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
  9. Job 42:7After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.
  10. Proverbs 17:15Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous— both are detestable to the LORD.
  11. 2 Corinthians 1:12And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.
  12. Galatians 2:11When Cephas came to Antioch, however, I opposed him to his face, because he stood to be condemned.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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