the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Job 27:4
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my lips will speak no evil, and my tongue will speak no lies.
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
my lips will not speak evil, and my tongue will not tell a lie.
my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will whisper no deceit.
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
My lips will not speak unjustly, Nor will my tongue utter deceit.
my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
my lippis schulen not speke wickidnesse, nether my tunge schal thenke a leesyng.
my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
I will tell only the truth.
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false.
my lips will not speak unrighteousness, or my tongue utter deceit.
My lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor my tongue utter deceit!
I will not be a hypocrite. I will not lie.
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit;
My lips shall not speake wickednesse, nor my tongue vtter deceit.
my lips will not speak what is not true, and my tongue will not lie.
my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
My lips surely shall speake no wickednesse, and my tongue shall vtter no deceite.
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
my lips will never say anything evil, my tongue will never tell a lie.
Verily my lips shall not speak perversity, nor shall, my tongue, utter deceit.
My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.
my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
My lippes shall talke of no vanitie, and my tongue shall speake no disceite.
my lips shall not speak evil words, neither shall my soul meditate unrighteous thoughts.
my lips will not speak unjustly,and my tongue will not utter deceit.
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
my lips surely will not speak falseness, and my tongue surely will not utter deceit.
my lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.
whyle my breth is in me, and as longe as the wynde (that God hath geuen me) is in my nostrels.
My lips certainly will not speak unjustly, Nor will my tongue mutter deceit.
My lips will not speak wickedness, Nor my tongue utter deceit.
My lips certainly will not speak unjustly, Nor will my tongue mutter deceit.
My lips certainly will not speak unrighteousness,Nor will my tongue utter deceit.
Contextual Overview
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
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my death.
And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord thy God brought it to me.
And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine and he drank.
And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord hath 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.
