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Job 27:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I will never affirm that you are right. I will maintain my integrity  , until I die.

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His wife said to him, ‘Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die! ’


Even if he kills me, I will hope in him. I will still defend  my ways before him.


But when Cephas  came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.


Acquitting the guilty and condemning the just   – both are detestable to the  Lord.


After the Lord had finished speaking  to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, ‘I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.


He was also angry at Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute him and yet had condemned him.


I clothed myself in righteousness, and it enveloped me; my just decisions were like a robe and a turban.


‘If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court, and the judges will hear their case. They will clear the innocent and condemn the guilty.


Indeed, this is our boast: The testimony  of our conscience  is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially towards you, with godly sincerity and purity, not by human wisdom  but by God’s grace.


Then the Lord said to Satan, ‘Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity,  who fears God and turns away from evil.  He still retains his integrity, even though you incited me against him, to destroy him for no good reason.’


Reconsider; don’t be unjust. Reconsider; my righteousness  is still the issue.


let God weigh me on accurate scales, and he will recognise my integrity.


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


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


Yet the righteous person will hold to his way, and the one whose hands are clean  will grow stronger.


If my step has turned from the way, my heart has followed my eyes, or impurity has stained my hands,


‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.





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