Job 27:4

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

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 God lives}, he has removed my justice, and Shaddai has made my inner self bitter.

3 For {as long as} my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of God [is] in my nose,

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

5 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.

6 I hold fast to my righteousness, and I will not let it go; my heart will not blame [any] of my days.