Job 27:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 2:9 : 9 And his wife said to him, Are you still keeping your righteousness? Say a curse against God, and put an end to yourself.
  • Job 13:15 : 15 Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;
  • Job 29:14 : 14 I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.
  • Job 32:3 : 3 And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.
  • Job 42:7 : 7 And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
  • Prov 17:15 : 15 He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.
  • Gal 2:11 : 11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I made a protest against him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong.
  • Deut 25:1 : 1 If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer.

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