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Job 27:6

New English Translation

I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.

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See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I am right.

But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason.”

“May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unrighteous.

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

let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.

If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,

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

Then Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry. He was angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God.

Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

Relent, let there be no falsehood; reconsider, for my righteousness is intact!

Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; protect it, because it is your life.

This is the reason I do my best to always have a clear conscience toward God and toward people.

I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.




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