Job 27:6 - Tree of Life Version I will maintain my righteousness, and not let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for any of my days. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 I will insist on my innocence, never surrendering it; my conscience will never blame me for what I have done. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life. |
But the righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
Then Adonai said to the satan, “Have you noticed My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and spurns evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, though you incited Me against him to ruin him without any reason.”
I put on righteousness as my clothing; justice was as my robe and turban.
then let Him weigh me with honest scales, then God will know my integrity.
If my step has strayed from the way, if my heart has walked after my eyes, or if any defilement has stuck to my hands,
So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite of the clan of Ram became very angry. He was angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God.
“Would you really annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
Hold on tightly to instruction, do not let it go— guard it, for it is your life.
“Therefore I do my best always to have a clear conscience before both God and men.
I have become a fool—you drove me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I am in no way inferior to the super-special emissaries—though I am nothing.