I will never concede that you are right; I will defend my integrity until I die.
Parallel translations
- WEB Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
- KJV God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
- BSB I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die.
- NKJV Far be it from me That I should say you are right; Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
- NASB “Far be it from me that I should declare you right; Until I die, I will not give up my integrity.
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Quick answer
Job refuses to admit his friends are right and will hold his integrity until death. It matters because he will not betray the truth to gain their approval.
Overview
Job declares it far from him to justify his friends' accusations; he will keep his integrity until he dies. He will not abandon his honest claim of innocence to win their agreement. Job's steadfast refusal to compromise truth under pressure displays a faith that values God's verdict above human approval.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Job 2:9Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”
- Job 13:15Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
- Prov 17:15He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
- Job 42:7It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
- Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
- Deut 25:1If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
- Job 32:3Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
- Gal 2:11But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.
- 2 Cor 1:12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
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