Job 27 · Verse 6

Job 27:6

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Job 27:6, King James Version

Job 27:6 in other translations

BSBI will cling to my righteousness and never let go. As long as I live, my conscience will not accuse me.
WEBI hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.
ASVMy righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
YLTOn my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.
DARBYMy righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart reproacheth me not one of my days.
BBEI will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.
WebsterMy righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

What does Job 27:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
6. Rather, my "heart" (conscience) reproaches "not one of my days," that is, I do not repent of any of my days since I came into existence [Maurer].

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 My righteousness I hold fast - I stand firmly on this ground; I have endeavored to live an upright life, and my afflictions are not the consequence of my sins. My heart shall not reproach me - I shall take care so to live that I shall have a conscience void of offense before God and man. "Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God;" 1Jn 3:21. This seems to be Job's meaning.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 27:1-6

Job's friends now suffered him to speak, and he proceeded in a grave and useful manner. Job had confidence in the goodness both of his cause and of his God; and cheerfully committed his cause to him. But Job had not due reverence when he spake of God as taking away his judgment, and vexing his soul. To resolve that our hearts shall not reproach us, while we hold fast our integrity, baffles the designs of the evil…

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Job 27:6 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בְּצִדְקָתִ֣יbe.tzid.ka.Tion righteousness myH6666
הֶ֭חֱזַקְתִּיHe.che.zak.tiI have kept holdH2388
וְלֹ֣אve.Lo'and notH3808
אַרְפֶּ֑הָ'ar.Pe.haI will let go itH7503
לֹֽא\־lo'-notH3808
יֶחֱרַ֥ףye.che.Rafit reproachesH2778
לְ֝בָבִ֗יle.va.Viheart myH3824
מִיָּמָֽי\׃mi.ya.Maiany of days myH3117

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 27:6

  • Job 2:3

    And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

  • Acts 24:16

    And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.

  • 1 John 3:20-21

    For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

  • Proverbs 4:13

    Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

  • 2 Corinthians 12:11

    I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

  • Psalms 18:20-23

    The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God. For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I hold fast.
2:3; Ps 18:20-23; Pr 4:13
my heart.
Ac 24:16; 2Co 12:11; 1Jo 3:20,21
so long as I live. Heb. from my days.

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Context

  • Job 27:5

    God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

  • Job 27:6

    My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

  • Job 27:7

    Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

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Job 27:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Mi justicia tengo asida, y no la cederé: no me reprochará mi corazón en el tiempo de mi vida.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Je tiendrai ferme ma justice et je n’en ferai pas abandon; mon cœur ne me reproche aucun de mes jours.
German
Elberfelder 1871
An meiner Gerechtigkeit halte ich fest und werde sie nicht fahren lassen: mein Herz schmäht nicht einen von meinen Tagen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Justificationem meam, quam cœpi tenere, non deseram: neque enim reprehendit me cor meum in omni vita mea.