Job 27:4

4 my lips will not say anything wicked, and my tongue will not utter lies.

Job 27:4 in Other Translations

4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

4 my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.

4 my lips will speak no evil, and my tongue will speak no lies.

4 I refuse to say one word that isn't true. I refuse to confess to any charge that's false.

4 Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

4 my lips will not say anything wrong, and my tongue will not mumble anything deceitful.'

4 my lips will not speak unjustly, and my tongue will not utter deceit.

4 my mouth won't say evil things. My lips won't tell lies.

Job 27:4 Meaning and Commentary

Job 27:4

My lips shall not speak wickedness
This is the thing he swears to, this the matter of his oath, not only that he would not speak a wicked word not anything corrupt, unsavoury, unchaste, profane, and idle nor speak evil of his neighbours and friends or of any man; but that he would not speak wickedly of himself, as he must do, if he owned himself to be a wicked man and an hypocrite as his friends charged him, and they would have had him confessed; but he swears he would not utter such wickedness as long as he had any breath in him:

nor my tongue utter deceit;
which respects the same thing; not merely any fallacy or lie, or what might impose upon and deceive another, which yet he was careful of; but such deceit and falsehood as would be a belying himself, which would be the case should he say that he was devoid of integrity and sincerity.

Job 27:4 In-Context

2 “As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter,

3 as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,

4 my lips will not say anything wicked, and my tongue will not utter lies.

5 I will never admit you are in the right; till I die, I will not deny my integrity.

6 I will maintain my innocence and never let go of it; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.

Cross References

• 1. S Job 6:28; S Job 12:16; S Job 16:17