Hiob 27:4

4 meine Lippen sollen nichts Unrechtes reden, und meine Zunge soll keinen Betrug sagen.

Hiob 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.

Hiob 27:4 In-Context

2 So wahr Gott lebt, der mir mein Recht weigert, und der Allmächtige, der meine Seele betrübt;

3 solange mein Odem in mir ist und der Hauch von Gott in meiner Nase ist:

4 meine Lippen sollen nichts Unrechtes reden, und meine Zunge soll keinen Betrug sagen.

5 Das sei ferne von mir, daß ich euch recht gebe; bis daß mein Ende kommt, will ich nicht weichen von meiner Unschuld.

6 Von meiner Gerechtigkeit, die ich habe, will ich nicht lassen; mein Gewissen beißt mich nicht meines ganzen Lebens halben.