Job 27:5 Meaning and Explanation
“God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Job flatly refuses to agree that his friends are right, holding fast to his integrity until death.
What Does Job 27:5 Mean?
To justify his friends would mean conceding their charge that his suffering proves secret guilt. Job will not do it, calling such a concession unthinkable. Far from it. Until his dying breath he will not surrender his integrity, the wholeness of a clear conscience before God.
This is not arrogant self-righteousness but the refusal to confess crimes he never committed. Job clings to a truthful account of his own life because he answers to God, not merely to accusers. There is a holy stubbornness in maintaining the truth when everyone urges you to abandon it. Such integrity, kept till death, foreshadows the perfect faithfulness of the Righteous One and encourages every believer to guard a clear conscience as a treasure worth more than approval or ease.
Job 27:5 in the Original Language
tummah (תֻּמָּה), 'integrity' -- moral completeness, blamelessness, an undivided and upright heart.
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What does Job 27:5 mean?
Job flatly refuses to agree that his friends are right, holding fast to his integrity until death.