Bible Strands
Job 27:5
I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job addresses his three friends who have insisted he must be concealing unconfessed sin. He speaks this declaration while enduring prolonged suffering and refusing their theological accusations.
The words — חָלִ֣ילָה (cha.Li.lah) translates literally as "far be it," and אַצְדִּ֪יק ('atz.Dik) means "I will declare right." The text states Job's absolute refusal to validate his accusers, then interpreters note this as a boundary against compromising truth under pressure.
The thread — The text records Job's parallel vow to defend his conduct in Job 13:15 and contrasts with his wife's demand to curse God in Job 2:9. It also points forward to God's direct condemnation of the same friends in Job 42:7.
Why it lands — The text commands a reader to refuse agreement with false charges, even when isolated or suffering. It asks for unyielding commitment to factual integrity over social or theological convenience.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
Cross-references
- Job 2:9 Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”
- Job 13:15 Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
- Job 42:7 After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.
- Proverbs 17:15 Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous—both are detestable to the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 25:1 If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned.
- Job 29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.
- Job 32:3 and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
- Galatians 2:11 When Cephas came to Antioch, however, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.
- 2 Corinthians 1:12 For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.