Job 27:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart will not reproach me as long as I live.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ My uprightness and my right standing with God I hold fast and will not let them go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days and it shall not reproach me as long as I live.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

Common English Bible

⁶ I will insist on my innocence, never surrendering it; my conscience will never blame me for what I have done.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ I will not forsake my justification, which I have just begun to grasp, for my heart does not find blame for me in my whole life.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.

Job 27:6 Cross References

Job 13:18

I have indeed prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated.

Job 17:9

Yet the righteous hold to their way, and they who have clean hands grow stronger and stronger.

Job 2:3

The Lord said to the accuser, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and turns away from evil. He still persists in his integrity, although you incited me against him, to destroy him for no reason.”

Job 27:7

“May my enemy be like the wicked, and may my opponent be like the unrighteous.

Job 29:14

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.

Job 31:6

let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!—

Job 31:7

if my step has turned aside from the way, and my heart has followed my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands,

Job 32:1

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Job 32:2

Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became angry. He was angry at Job because he justified himself rather than God;

Job 40:8

Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified?

Job 6:29

Turn, I pray; let no wrong be done. Turn now; my vindication is at stake.

Proverbs 4:13

Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

Acts 24:16

Therefore I do my best always to have a clear conscience toward God and all people.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been a fool! You forced me to it. Indeed you should have been the ones commending me, for I am not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.