Job 27:6
Good News Translation
I will never give up my claim to be right; my conscience is clear.

New Revised Standard Version
I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

Contemporary English Version
because each day my conscience agrees that I am innocent.

New American Bible
My justice I maintain and I will not relinquish it; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.

I hold fast

Job 2:3 And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence? But thou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without cause.

Psalm 18:20-23 And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands: . . .

Proverbs 4:13 Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee.

my heart

Acts 24:16 And herein do I endeavour to have always a conscience without offence, towards God and towards men.

2 Corinthians 12:11 I am become foolish. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you. For I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing.

1 John 3:20,21 For if our heart reprehend us, God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things. . . .

so long as I live.

Context
Job Affirms His Integrity
5God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence. 6My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.
Cross References
Job 2:3
And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence? But thou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without cause.

Job 6:29
Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that which is just, judge ye.

Job 13:18
If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.

Job 27:7
Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.

Job 29:14
I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.

Job 31:6
Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.

Job 32:1
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he seemed just to himself.

Job 32:2
And Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite of the kindred of Ram, was angry and was moved to indignation: now he was angry against Job, because he said he was just before God.

Job 40:8
Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?

Job 27:5
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