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Job 27:4

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4 Indien mijn lippen onrecht zullen spreken, en indien mijn tong bedrog zal uitspreken!

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.

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Job 27:4 In-Context

2 Zo waarachtig als God leeft, Die mijn recht weggenomen heeft, en de Almachtige, Die mijner ziel bitterheid heeft aangedaan!
3 Zo lang als mijn adem in mij zal zijn, en het geblaas Gods in mijn neus;
4 Indien mijn lippen onrecht zullen spreken, en indien mijn tong bedrog zal uitspreken!
5 Het zij verre van mij, dat ik ulieden rechtvaardigen zou; totdat ik den geest zal gegeven hebben, zal ik mijn oprechtigheid van mij niet wegdoen.
6 Aan mijn gerechtigheid zal ik vasthouden, en zal ze niet laten varen; mijn hart zal die niet versmaden van mijn dagen.
The Dutch Staten Vertaling translation is in the public domain.

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