Job 27:5

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Summary

Job 27:5

God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

Justify

Galatians 2:11

I will not

General references

Job 33:32

Bible References

Justify

And his anger burned against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

It came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job has.

“If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous,
Both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.

I will not

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!”

“Though He slay me,
I will hope in Him.
Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him.

“I put on righteousness, and it clothed me;
My justice was like a robe and a turban.

For our proud confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

General references

“Then if you have anything to say, answer me;
Speak, for I desire to justify you.