Job 27:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

Job 27:5 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
Proverbs 17:15
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
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.
Galatians 2:11
But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

Topics

Conscience Conscientiousness Honesty Integrity Measure Morality

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

Job’s discourse here is called a parable (mashal), the title of Solomon’s proverbs, because it was grave and weighty, and very instructive, and he spoke as one having authority. It comes from a word that signifies to rule, or have dominion; and some think it intimates that Job now triumphed over his opponents, and spoke as one that had baffled them. We say of an excellent preacher that he knows ho…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. justify you--approve of your views. mine integrity--which you deny, on account of my misfortunes.