- Bible
- Job
- Chapter 27
- Verse 5
God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
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Gill's Exposition
God forbid that I should justify you,.... Not but that he counted them righteous and good men God-ward; he did not take upon him to judge their state, and to justify or condemn them with respect to…
Barnes' Notes
God forbid - לי חלילה châlı̂ylâh lı̂y. “Far be it from me.” Literally, “Profane be it to me;” that is, I should regard it as unholy and profane; I cannot do it. That I should justify you - That I…
Job's discourse here is called a parable (mashal), the title of Solomon's proverbs, because it was grave and weighty, and very instructive, and he spoke as one having authority. It comes from a word…
Cambridge Bible
should justify you i. e. concede that you are in the right, viz. in charging me with evil.
remove my integrity i. e. give up my blamelessness refrain from asserting my innocence.
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