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I Hold Fast My Righteousness

27 Then Job continued to lift up his [a](A)discourse and said,

“As God lives, (B)who has removed my justice,
And the Almighty, (C)who has embittered my soul,
For as long as breath is in me,
And the (D)spirit from God is in my nostrils,
My lips certainly will not speak unrighteousness,
Nor will (E)my tongue utter deceit.
Far be it from me that I should declare you right;
Till I breathe my last (F)I will not remove my integrity from me.
I (G)hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go.
My heart does not reproach any of my days.

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  1. Job 27:1 Lit proverb

27 And Job again took up his parable, and said,

As God liveth, who hath taken away my right,
And the Almighty, who hath [a]vexed my soul
[b](For my life is yet whole in me,
And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
Surely my lips [c]shall not speak unrighteousness,
Neither [d]shall my tongue utter deceit.
Far be it from me that I should justify you:
Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go:
My heart [e]shall not reproach me so long as I live.

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  1. Job 27:2 Hebrew made my soul bitter.
  2. Job 27:3 Or, All the while my breath is in me . . . nostrils; surely
  3. Job 27:4 Or, do
  4. Job 27:4 Or, doth
  5. Job 27:6 Or, doth not reproach me for any of my days