Job 27:5

New International Reader's Version

I’ll never admit you people are right. Until I die, I’ll say I’m telling the truth.

Cross References

Job 13:15

Even if God kills me, I’ll still put my hope in him. I’ll argue my case in front of him.

Job 17:9

But godly people will keep doing what is right. Those who have clean hands will grow stronger.

Job 2:3

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you thought about my servant Job? There isn’t anyone on earth like him. He is honest. He does what is right. He has respect for God and avoids evil. You tried to turn me against him. You wanted me to destroy him without any reason. But he still continues to be faithful.”

Job 2:9

His wife said to him, “Are you still continuing to be faithful to the Lord? Speak evil things against him and die!”

Job 29:14

I put on a godly life as if it were my clothes. Fairness was my robe and my turban.

Job 31:6

So let God weigh me in honest scales. Then he’ll know I haven’t done anything wrong.

Job 31:7

Suppose my steps have turned away from the right path. Suppose my heart has wanted what my eyes have seen. Or suppose my hands have become ‘unclean.’

Job 32:1

So the three men stopped answering Job, because he thought he was right.

Job 32:2

But Elihu the Buzite was very angry with Job. That’s because Job said he himself was right instead of God. Elihu was the son of Barakel. He was from the family of Ram.

Job 32:3

Elihu was also very angry with Job’s three friends. They hadn’t found any way to prove that Job was wrong. But they still said he was guilty.

Job 33:9

You said, ‘I’m pure. I have done no wrong. I’m clean. I’m free from sin.

Job 42:7

After the Lord finished speaking to Job, he spoke to Eliphaz the Temanite. He said, “I am angry with you and your two friends. You have not said what is true about me, as my servant Job has.

Job 6:29

Stop what you are saying. Don’t be so unfair. Think it over again. You are trying to take my honesty away from me.

Proverbs 17:15

The Lord hates two things. He hates it when the guilty are set free. He also hates it when those who aren’t guilty are punished.

2 Corinthians 1:12

Here is what we take pride in. Our sense of what is right and wrong tells us how we have acted. We have lived with honor and godly honesty. We have depended on God’s grace and not on the world’s wisdom. We lived that way most of all when we were dealing with you.

Galatians 2:11

When Peter came to Antioch, I told him to his face that I was against what he was doing. He was clearly wrong.

Deuteronomy 25:1

Suppose two people don’t agree about something. Then they must take their case to court. The judges will decide the case. They will let the one who isn’t guilty go free. And they will punish the one who is guilty.