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Job 27:4

I will not be a hypocrite. I will not lie.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Deceit;   Falsehood;   Integrity;   Speaking;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Deceit;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Guilt;   Slothful;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;   Lip;   Providence;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Job, Book of;   Mutter;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
my lips will not speak unjustly,and my tongue will not utter deceit.
Hebrew Names Version
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
King James Version
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
English Standard Version
my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
New Century Version
my lips will not speak evil, and my tongue will not tell a lie.
New English Translation
my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will whisper no deceit.
Amplified Bible
My lips will not speak unjustly, Nor will my tongue utter deceit.
New American Standard Bible
My lips certainly will not speak unjustly, Nor will my tongue mutter deceit.
World English Bible
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
Geneva Bible (1587)
My lips surely shall speake no wickednesse, and my tongue shall vtter no deceite.
Legacy Standard Bible
My lips certainly will not speak unrighteousness,Nor will my tongue utter deceit.
Berean Standard Bible
my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
Contemporary English Version
I will tell only the truth.
Complete Jewish Bible
my lips will not speak unrighteousness, or my tongue utter deceit.
Darby Translation
My lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor my tongue utter deceit!
George Lamsa Translation
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Good News Translation
my lips will never say anything evil, my tongue will never tell a lie.
Lexham English Bible
my lips surely will not speak falseness, and my tongue surely will not utter deceit.
Literal Translation
my lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
whyle my breth is in me, and as longe as the wynde (that God hath geuen me) is in my nostrels.
American Standard Version
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
Bible in Basic English
Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit;
King James Version (1611)
My lips shall not speake wickednesse, nor my tongue vtter deceit.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
My lippes shall talke of no vanitie, and my tongue shall speake no disceite.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
my lips shall not speak evil words, neither shall my soul meditate unrighteous thoughts.
English Revised Version
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
my lippis schulen not speke wickidnesse, nether my tunge schal thenke a leesyng.
Update Bible Version
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
Webster's Bible Translation
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
New King James Version
My lips will not speak wickedness, Nor my tongue utter deceit.
New Living Translation
my lips will speak no evil, and my tongue will speak no lies.
New Life Bible
my lips will not speak what is not true, and my tongue will not lie.
New Revised Standard
my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Verily my lips shall not speak perversity, nor shall, my tongue, utter deceit.
Douay-Rheims Bible
My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.
Revised Standard Version
my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
Young's Literal Translation
My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
My lips certainly will not speak unjustly, Nor will my tongue mutter deceit.

Contextual Overview

1 Job continued his answer: 2 "God All-Powerful has been unfair to me; he has made my life bitter. But I swear by his life, 3 as long as I have life in me, as long as breath from God is in my nostrils, 4 I will not be a hypocrite. I will not lie. 5 You will never hear me say you men are right! Until the day I die I will not be untrue to myself. 6 I will hold on to my innocence and never let go! My conscience will always be clear!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 13:7, Job 34:6, John 8:55, 2 Corinthians 11:10

Reciprocal: Job 6:29 - my righteousness Job 32:1 - righteous Job 33:3 - the

Cross-References

Genesis 14:19
He blessed Abram and said, "Abram, may you be blessed by God Most High, the one who made heaven and earth.
Genesis 24:60
While Rebekah was leaving they said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of millions of people, and may your descendants defeat their enemies and take their cities."
Genesis 27:1
Isaac grew old, and his eyes became so weak that he could not see clearly. One day he called his older son Esau to him and said, "Son!" Esau answered, "Here I am."
Genesis 27:7
Your father said, ‘Kill an animal for me to eat. Prepare the food for me, and I will eat it. Then, with the Lord as witness, I will bless you before I die.'
Genesis 27:15
Then Rebekah took the clothes that her older son Esau loved to wear. She put these clothes on the younger son Jacob.
Genesis 27:20
But Isaac said to his son, "How have you hunted and killed the animals so quickly?" Jacob answered, "Because the Lord your God allowed me to find the animals quickly."
Genesis 27:22
So Jacob went to Isaac his father. Isaac felt him and said, "Your voice sounds like Jacob's voice, but your arms are hairy like the arms of Esau."
Genesis 27:23
Isaac did not know it was Jacob, because his arms were hairy like Esau's. So Isaac blessed Jacob.
Genesis 27:25
Then Isaac said, "Bring me the food. I will eat it and bless you." So Jacob gave him the food, and he ate it. Then Jacob gave him some wine, and he drank it.
Genesis 27:27
So Jacob went to his father and kissed him. When Isaac smelled Esau's clothes, he blessed him and said, "My son smells like the fields the Lord has blessed.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My lips shall not speak wickedness,.... This is the thing he swears to, this the matter of his oath, not only that he would not speak a wicked word not anything corrupt, unsavoury, unchaste, profane, and idle nor speak evil of his neighbours and friends or of any man; but that he would not speak wickedly of himself, as he must do, if he owned himself to be a wicked man and an hypocrite as his friends charged him, and they would have had him confessed; but he swears he would not utter such wickedness as long as he had any breath in him:

nor my tongue utter deceit; which respects the same thing; not merely any fallacy or lie, or what might impose upon and deceive another, which yet he was careful of; but such deceit and falsehood as would be a belying himself, which would be the case should he say that he was devoid of integrity and sincerity.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My lips shall not speak wickedness - This solemn profession made on oath might have done something to allay the suspicions of his friends in regard to him, and to show that they had been mistaken in his character. It is a solemn assurance that he did not mean to vindicate the cause of wickedness, or to say one word in its favor; and that as long as he lived he would never be found advocating it.

Nor my tongue utter deceit - I will never make any use of sophistry; I will not attempt to make “the worse appear the better reason;” I will not be the advocate of error. This had always been the aim of Job, and he now says that no circumstance should ever induce him to pursue a different course as long as he lived. Probably he means, also, as the following verse seems to imply, that no consideration should ever induce him to countenance error or to palliate wrong. He would not be deterred from expressing his sentiments by any dread of opposition, or even by any respect for his friends. No friendship which he might have for them would induce him to justify what he honestly regarded as error.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 27:4. My lips shall not speak wickedness — As I have hitherto lived in all good conscience before God, as he knoweth, so will I continue to live.


 
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