Job 27:3

all the while The sense is rather as given above, according to the parallel passage, 2 Samuel 1:9. The phrase "my life" in the first clause is lit. my breath. The words are parenthetical, and are thrown in to add weight to the affirmation of his rectitude which Job is about to make (Job 27:4); they imply that, though reduced by disease, he is in possession of all his powers, and flings the whole force of his being into his affirmation.