Job 27:6
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
KJV
Justificationem meam, quam cœpi tenere, non deseram : neque enim reprehendit me cor meum in omni vita mea.
Vulgate
δικαιοσύνῃ δὲ προσέχων οὐ μὴ προῶμαι, οὐ γὰρ σύνοιδα ἐμαυτῷ ἄτοπα πράξας.
LXX
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproachmeso long as I live.
ASV
בְּ/צִדְקָתִ֣/י הֶ֭חֱזַקְתִּי וְ/לֹ֣א אַרְפֶּ֑/הָ לֹֽא יֶחֱרַ֥ף לְ֝בָבִ֗/י מִ/יָּמָֽ/י
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
הֶחֱזִ֗יק
hchzyq
verb · 289×
וֹ
v
noun · 251×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
ךָ֖
k
verb · 46×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
נִי
ny
verb · 41×
צְדָקָ֖ה
tsdqh
noun · 157×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 4:4 — For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
- 1John 3:20 — For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
- 1John 3:20 — For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
- 1John 3:21 — Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
- 2Cor 12:11 — I 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.
- Acts 24:16 — And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
- Job 2:3 — And 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 holdet
- Job 16:17 — Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
- Job 29:14 — I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
- Prov 4:13 — Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
- Rom 2:15 — Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
- Titus 1:9 — Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.