Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness.
New American Standard Bible
Till I die
King James Version
God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
Holman Bible
I will maintain my integrity
International Standard Version
Far be it from me to admit that you're right! I intend to maintain my integrity even if it kills me!
A Conservative Version
Far be it from me that I should justify you. Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
American Standard Version
Far be it from me that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.
Amplified
“Far be it from me that I should admit you are right [in your accusations against me];
Until I die, I will not remove my integrity from me.
Darby Translation
Be it far from me that I should justify you; till I die I will not remove my blamelessness from me.
Julia Smith Translation
Far be it to me if I shall justify you: till I expire I will not remove my integrity from me.
King James 2000
God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove my integrity from me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Far be it from me that {I would say that you are right}; until I pass away, I will not put away from me my blamelessness.
Modern King James verseion
Far be it from me that I should justify you; until I die I will not retract my integrity from me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
God forbid, that I should grant your cause to be right! As for me, until mine end come will I never go from my innocence.
NET Bible
I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!
New Heart English Bible
Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
The Emphasized Bible
Far be it from me! that I should justify, you, - Even until I breathe my last, will I not let go mine integrity from me:
Webster
Far be it from me that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove my integrity from me.
World English Bible
Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
Youngs Literal Translation
Pollution to me -- if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me.
Interlinear
Tsadaq
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 27:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues His Final Speech
4 Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false. 5 Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness. 6 I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.
Names
Cross References
Job 2:9
And his wife said to him, Are you still keeping your righteousness? Say a curse against God, and put an end to yourself.
Job 13:15
Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;
Deuteronomy 25:1
If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer.
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.
Job 32:3
And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.
Job 42:7
And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
Proverbs 17:15
He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.
Galatians 2:11
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I made a protest against him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong.