Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.
New American Standard Bible
My heart does not reproach any of my days.
King James Version
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Holman Bible
My conscience
International Standard Version
I'll retain my righteousness and not compromise it; my conscience won't rebuke me at any time.
American Standard Version
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach me'so long as I live.
Amplified
“I hold fast my uprightness and my right standing with God and I will not let them go;
My heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
Bible in Basic English
I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.
Darby Translation
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart reproacheth me not one of my days.
Julia Smith Translation
My justice I held fast, and I will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach from my days.
King James 2000
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I hold fast to my righteousness, and I will not let it go; my heart will not blame [any] of my days.
Modern King James verseion
I hold fast by my righteousness, and I will not let it go; my heart shall not shame me any of my days.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My righteous dealing will I keep fast, and not forsake it; for my conscience reproveth me not in all my conversation.
NET Bible
I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.
New Heart English Bible
I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
The Emphasized Bible
On my righteousness, have I taken fast hold, and will not give it up, My heart shall not reproach any of my days.
Webster
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
World English Bible
I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Youngs Literal Translation
On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.
Themes
Conscience » We should have the approval of
Righteousness » Not letting your righteousness go
Seven » Example of steadfastness » Job, in his religious life
Stability » Seven notable examples of » Job, in his religious life
Steadfastness » Seven notable examples of » Job, in his religious life
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 27:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues His Final Speech
5 Far be it from me that I should justify you. Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me. 6 I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live. 7 Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
Names
Cross References
Job 2:3
And LORD said to Satan, Have thou considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although thou m
Acts 24:16
And in this I fashion myself, having a conscience always nonstumbling before God and men.
Psalm 18:20-23
LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me.
Proverbs 4:13
Take firm hold of instruction. Do not let her go. Keep her, for she is thy life.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become foolish, boasting. Ye compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I came short in nothing of those, superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.
1 John 3:20-21
Because if our heart should condemn us, that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.