My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Parallel translations
- WEB I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
- BSB I will cling to my righteousness and never let go. As long as I live, my conscience will not accuse me.
- NKJV My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go; My heart shall not reproach me as long as I live.
- NASB “I have kept hold of my righteousness and will not let it go. My heart does not rebuke any of my days.
- NLT I will maintain my innocence without wavering. My conscience is clear for as long as I live.
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Quick answer
Job holds fast to his righteousness, his conscience not condemning him. It matters because Job's clear conscience sustains his confidence before God.
Overview
Job grips his righteousness firmly and declares that his heart does not reproach him for any of his days. He maintains a clear conscience, denying the secret sins his friends allege. While no one is sinless, Job's relative blamelessness is real, and it points to the perfect righteousness of Christ in whom believers find a truly untroubled conscience (Heb. 9:14).
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Cross-references · 6
- Job 2:3And 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 24:16And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
- 1 Jn 3:20–21For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
- Prov 4:13Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
- 2 Cor 12:11I 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.
- Ps 18:20–23The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
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