Job 27:6

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

Job 27:6 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
English Standard Version (ESV)
6 I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
New Living Translation (NLT)
6 I will maintain my innocence without wavering. My conscience is clear for as long as I live.
The Message Bible (MSG)
6 I'm holding fast to my integrity and not loosening my grip - and, believe me, I'll never regret it.
American Standard Version (ASV)
6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
6 I cling to my righteousness and won't let go. My conscience won't accuse me as long as I live.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
6 I will cling to my righteousness and never let it go. My conscience will not accuse [me] as long as I live!
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
6 I'll continue to say I'm right. I'll never let go of that. I won't blame myself as long as I live.

Job 27:6 Meaning and Commentary

Job 27:6

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go
Meaning not his personal righteousness, or the righteousness of his works, as his justifying righteousness before God, and for acceptance with him; which no man that is convinced of the insufficiency of, as Job was, will hold fast, but renounce, and desire, with the Apostle Paul, not to be found in it, ( Philippians 3:9 ) . Indeed the righteousness of his living Redeemer, which was his, and he might call so, this he knew, and knew he should be justified by it, and which he laid hold upon by faith in the strong exercise of it, and would not drop it, or become remiss in it, but retain it, and constantly make mention of it, and plead it as his justifying righteousness with God; but here he intends the righteousness of his cause, which he always maintained strongly, and was determined he ever would, and never give way, or let it drop, but continue to affirm, that he was a righteous man, and that it was not for any unrighteousness he had done to any man that God dealt thus with him; he had wronged no man, he had done justice to all men, as well as he was not devoid of the fear of God, and piety towards him; and this character of himself he would never give up, but defend to the uttermost:

my heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live;
not that he imagined he should or could live without sin, so that his conscience could never charge, accuse, or upbraid him with it; for there is no man, let him live a life ever so harmless and inoffensive to God and man, but his heart will smite him, and condemn him for his sins committed in thought, word, and deed: but Job's sense is, that he would never deny his integrity, or renounce the righteousness of his cause, and own himself to be an insincere and unrighteous man; should he do this, he should speak contrary to his own conscience, which would accuse and reproach him for so saying, and therefore he was determined it never should; for, as long as he lived, he neither could nor would say any such thing. Some render the last phrase, "for my days" F3, or "concerning" them; for my course of life, all my days, so Jarchi; for that my heart shall not reproach me, as being conscious to himself he had lived in all good conscience to that day, and trusted he ever should; but the sense before given is best.


FOOTNOTES:

F3 (ymym) "propter dies meos", Munster; "[vel] propter dies vitae meae", Michaelis; "de diebus meis", Schultens.

Job 27:6 In-Context

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.
7 “May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unjust!
8 For what hope have the godless when they are cut off, when God takes away their life?

Cross References 3

  • 1. Job 29:14; Psalms 119:121; Psalms 132:9; Isaiah 59:17; Isaiah 61:10
  • 2. S Acts 23:1; Romans 2:15
  • 3. S Job 2:3; S Job 10:7; S Job 23:10; S Job 34:17
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