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Job 27:4

New Century Version

my lips will not speak evil, and my tongue will not tell a lie.

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You should not speak evil in the name of God; you cannot speak God’s truth by telling lies.

Yet my hands have never done anything cruel, and my prayer is pure.

If this is not true, who can prove I am wrong? Who can show that my words are worth nothing?”

My words come from an honest heart, and I am sincere in saying what I know.

Instead of getting a fair trial, I am called a liar. I have been seriously hurt, even though I have not sinned.’

“But now please look at me. I would not lie to your face.

You don’t really know him, but I know him. If I said I did not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey what he says.

No one in Southern Greece will stop me from bragging about that. I say this with the truth of Christ in me.