Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 27:6
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I (e) live.
(e) Of my life past.
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I (e) live.
(e) Of my life past.
Verse Job 27:6. _MY RIGHTEOUSNESS I HOLD FAST_] I stand firmly on this ground; I have endeavoured to live an upright life, and my afflictions are not the consequence of my sins. _MY HEART SHALL NOT...
MY RIGHTEOUSNESS I HOLD FAST - I hold on to the consciousness of integrity and uprightness. I cannot, will not, part with that. Job had lost his property, his health, and his domestic comforts, but he...
CHAPTER 27 JOB'S CLOSING WORDS IN SELF-VINDICATION _ 1. My righteousness I hold fast (Job 27:1)_ 2. The contrast between himself and the wicked (Job 27:7) Job 27:1. Zophar, the third friend, no long...
Continuation of Job's reply to Bildad. Job 27:1 must be removed as a gloss. Job swears by God that he (in full possession of his powers, Job 27:3) tells the truth (Job 27:4). God forbid that he should...
Job with the solemnity of an oath by God declares that he speaks in sincerity when affirming his innocence. Till he die he will not admit his guilt; his conscience reproaches him for no part of his li...
The second clause of Job 27:6 reads, My heart reproacheth not one of my days, or, _my heart reproaches_(_me) not since I was alive_, i. e. during all my life. Of course the words have reference to t...
DISCOURSE: 477 SELF-REPROACH Job 27:6. _My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live_. JOB had been represented by God as a perfect and upright man: and the severe trials he was called to endure...
GOD FORBID THAT I SHOULD JUSTIFY YOU— See the note on chap. Job 2:9. This and the three following verses afford us a proof of Job's faith, and contain the noble plea that he makes for himself against...
IV. THE LONELINESS AND ISOLATION OF JOB (Job 27:1, Job 31:40) A. THE AFFIRMATION OF INNOCENCE (Job 27:1-6) TEXT 27:1-6 27 AND JOB AGAIN TOOK UP HIS PARABLE AND SAID, 2 As God liveth, who hath taken...
_MY RIGHTEOUSNESS I HOLD FAST, AND WILL NOT LET IT GO: MY HEART SHALL NOT REPROACH ME SO LONG AS I LIVE._ Rather, 'my heart' (conscience) reproaches 'not one of my days' - i:e., I do not repent of an...
JOB'S EIGHTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-6. Job protests that he is innocent. Job 27:1 are an enlargement of what Job had previously said (Job 13:16) of his determination not to admit that he was being puni...
Job was sure that he was innocent. He said that he would continue to argue this for the rest of his life. Later, we see that Job’s attitude was wrong. Job should have insisted that God was right. But...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 27 JOB CONTINUES HIS LAST S...
MY HEART SHALL NOT REPROACH ME. — Or, _doth_ _not reproach me for any of my days. _...
בְּ צִדְקָתִ֣י הֶ֭חֱזַקְתִּי וְ לֹ֣א אַרְפֶּ֑הָ...
XXII. THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIS WAYS Job 26:1; Job 27:1 Job SPEAKS BEGINNING his reply Job is full of scorn and sarcasm. "How hast thou helped one without power! How hast thou saved the strengthless...
THE JUSTICE OF GOD Job 27:1 Zophar ought now to have taken up the discourse, but, as he is silent, Job proceeds. First he renews _his protestations of integrity,_ Job 27:1. He denies the charge of be...
There would seem to have been a pause after Job's answer to Bildad. The suggestion is that he waited for Zophar, and seeing that Zophar was silent, he took the initiative, and made general reply. This...
(2) As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul; (3) All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; (4) My lips shall not speak...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
MY RIGHTEOUSNESS I HOLD FAST, AND WILL NOT LET IT GO,.... Meaning not his personal righteousness, or the righteousness of his works, as his justifying righteousness before God, and for acceptance with...
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live. Ver. 6. _My righteousness I hold fast_] As with tooth and nail, yea, though it be to the loss...
_God forbid that I should justify you_ In your opinion concerning me, and censure of me; _till I die_, &c. Never hope that I will yield to your judgment, which I know to be false: no, I abhor the thou...
My righteousness I hold fast and will not let it go, in spite also of the sneering remark of his wife, 2:9; MY HEART SHALL NOT REPROACH ME SO LONG AS I LIVE, not blaming him for one deliberate wickedn...
JOB'S AGAIN PROTESTS HIS INNOCENCE...
HOLDING FAST HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS (vv.1-7) In Chapter 26 Job answered Bildad fully. Bildad's last argument was very brief, and after this Zophar had nothing at all to say. Job has already won the debat...
SO LONG AS I LIVE: _ Heb._ from my days...
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 h...
I HOLD FAST, Heb. _I have held fast_, i.e., I have not only begun well, but continued in well-doing; which is a plain evidence that I am no hypocrite. Or, the past tense is put for the future, as is u...
Job 27:6 righteousness H6666 hold H2388 (H8689) go H7503 (H8686) heart H3824 reproach H2778 (H8799) live...
Remember that Job's friends had accused him of having committed some great sin; which would account for his great sorrows. The good man is naturally very indignant, and he uses the strongest possible...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: The consideration of the miserable condition of the hypocrite should engage us to be upright. KEY WORD: Hypocr...
Job 27:1. _Parable,_ equivalent to a wise, learned and conclusive speech. Job 27:2. _God hath taken away my judgment._ The old readings here are preferable. The LXX, God judgeth me thus, or so heavily...
_Till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me._ MORAL COURAGE It is the aim of all men to secure happiness. As to the course they think best adapted to secure this they differ most widely, and...
_Moreover Job continued his parable._ POINTS IN JOB’S PARABLE I. A solemn asseveration. “As God liveth.” The words imply a belief-- 1. In the reality of the Divine existence. Whilst some deny this...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 27:6 By saying that he will HOLD FAST to his integrity, Job echoes the Lord’s description of him in the prologue (Job 2:3)....
_JOB’S REPLY TO THE FRIENDS IN GENERAL_ Job now alone in the field. Zophar, who should have followed Bildad, and to whom Job had given opportunity to speak, has apparently nothing to say. Job, therefo...
EXPOSITION JOB 27:1 This chapter divides itself into three distinct portions. In the first, which extends to the end of Job 27:6, Job is engaged in maintaining, with the utmost possible solemnity (ve...
Job continued his answer and he said, As God lives, who has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul; All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;...
1 John 3:20; 1 John 3:21; 2 Corinthians 12:11; Acts 24:16; Job 2:3;...
Reproach — With betraying my own cause and innocency....