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Job 27:6
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I will maintain my innocence without wavering. My conscience is clear for as long as I live.
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.
I will insist that I am right; I will not back down. My conscience will never bother me.
I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.
I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
"I hold fast my uprightness and my right standing with God and I will not let them go; My heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
Y schal not forsake my iustifiyng, which Y bigan to holde; for myn herte repreueth me not in al my lijf.
I will hold fast my righteousness and never let go. As long as I live, my conscience will not accuse me.
because each day my conscience agrees that I am innocent.
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.
I hold to my righteousness; I won't let it go; my heart will not shame me as long as I live.
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart reproacheth [me] not one of my days.
I will hold on to my innocence and never let go! My conscience will always be clear!
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go; my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
My righteousnesse I hold fast, and will not let it goe: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I liue.
I hold on to what is right and good and will not let it go. My heart does not put me to shame for any of my days.
I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
I will keepe my righteousnesse, and wil not forsake it: mine heart shall not reprooue me of my dayes.
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go; my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
I will never give up my claim to be right; my conscience is clear.
On my righteousness, have I taken fast hold, and will not give it up, My heart shall not reproach any of my days.
My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.
I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
My righteous dealing kepe I fast, which I will not forsake: my heart shal not reproue me of my dayes.
but keeping fast to my righteousness I will by no means let it go: for I am not conscious to myself of having done any thing amiss.
I will cling to my righteousness and never let it go.My conscience will not accuse me as long as I live!
I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
I hold fast to my righteousness, and I will not let it go; my heart will not blame any of my days.
I hold fast by my righteousness, and I will not abandon it; my heart shall not shame me any of my days.
On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.
My rightuous dealynge wil I kepe fast, & not forsake it: For my conscience reproueth me not in all my conuersacion.
"I have kept hold of my righteousness and will not let it go. My heart does not rebuke any of my days.
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go; My heart shall not reproach me as long as I live.
"I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go. My heart does not reproach any of my days.
I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go.My heart does not reproach any of my days.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I hold fast: Job 2:3, Psalms 18:20-23, Proverbs 4:13
my heart: Acts 24:16, 2 Corinthians 12:11, 1 John 3:20, 1 John 3:21
so long as I live: Heb. from my days
Reciprocal: Job 4:6 - the uprightness Job 16:17 - Not for Job 33:9 - clean Isaiah 26:7 - way Romans 2:15 - accusing 1 Corinthians 4:4 - I know 2 Corinthians 1:12 - our rejoicing Titus 1:9 - Holding
Cross-References
And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go,.... Meaning not his personal righteousness, or the righteousness of his works, as his justifying righteousness before God, and for acceptance with him; which no man that is convinced of the insufficiency of, as Job was, will hold fast, but renounce, and desire, with the Apostle Paul, not to be found in it, Philippians 3:9. Indeed the righteousness of his living Redeemer, which was his, and he might call so, this he knew, and knew he should be justified by it, and which he laid hold upon by faith in the strong exercise of it, and would not drop it, or become remiss in it, but retain it, and constantly make mention of it, and plead it as his justifying righteousness with God; but here he intends the righteousness of his cause, which he always maintained strongly, and was determined he ever would, and never give way, or let it drop, but continue to affirm, that he was a righteous man, and that it was not for any unrighteousness he had done to any man that God dealt thus with him; he had wronged no man, he had done justice to all men, as well as he was not devoid of the fear of God, and piety towards him; and this character of himself he would never give up, but defend to the uttermost:
my heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live; not that he imagined he should or could live without sin, so that his conscience could never charge, accuse, or upbraid him with it; for there is no man, let him live a life ever so harmless and inoffensive to God and man, but his heart will smite him, and condemn him for his sins committed in thought, word, and deed: but Job's sense is, that he would never deny his integrity, or renounce the righteousness of his cause, and own himself to be an insincere and unrighteous man; should he do this, he should speak contrary to his own conscience, which would accuse and reproach him for so saying, and therefore he was determined it never should; for, as long as he lived, he neither could nor would say any such thing. Some render the last phrase, "for my days" c, or "concerning" them; for my course of life, all my days, so Jarchi; for that my heart shall not reproach me, as being conscious to himself he had lived in all good conscience to that day, and trusted he ever should; but the sense before given is best.
c מימי "propter dies meos", Munster; "[vel] propter dies vitae meae", Michaelis; "de diebus meis", Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
My righteousness I hold fast - I hold on to the consciousness of integrity and uprightness. I cannot, will not, part with that. Job had lost his property, his health, and his domestic comforts, but he had in all this one consolation - he felt that he was sincere. He had been subjected to calamity by God as if he were a wicked man, but still he was resolved to adhere to the consciousness of his uprightness. Property may leave a man; friends may forsake him; children may die; disease may attack him; slander may assail him; and death may approach him; but still he may have in his bosom one unfailing source of consolation; he may have the consciousness that his aim has been right and pure. That nothing can shake; of that, no storms or tempests, no malignant foe, no losses or disappointment, no ridicule or calumny, can deprive him.
My heart shall not reproach me - That is, as being insincere, false, hollow.
So long as I live - Margin, “from my days.” So the Hebrew - מימי mı̂yāmāy. Vulgate in omni vita mea. Septuagint, “I am not conscious to myself of having done anything amiss” - ἄτοπα τράξας atopa pracas; compare the notes at 1 Corinthians 4:4. The idea is, that he had a consciousness of integrity, and that he meant to maintain it as long as he lived.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 27:6. My righteousness I hold fast — I stand firmly on this ground; I have endeavoured to live an upright life, and my afflictions are not the consequence of my sins.
My heart shall not reproach me — I shall take care so to live that I shall have a conscience void of offense before God and man. "Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God;" 1 John 3:21. This seems to be Job's meaning.
