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27 Job again took up his parable, and said,

“As God lives, who has taken away my right,
    the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter
(for the length of my life is still in me,
    and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness,
    neither will my tongue utter deceit.
Far be it from me that I should justify you.
    Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go.
    My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

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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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Footnotes

  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