The living God hath taken away my [a]judgment: for the Almighty hath put my soul in bitterness.

Yet so long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God in my nostrils,

[b]My lips surely shall speak no wickedness, and my tongue shall utter no deceit.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 27:2 He hath so sore afflicted me, that men cannot judge of mine uprightness: for they judge only by outward signs.
  2. Job 27:4 However men judge of me, yet will I not speak contrary to that which I have said, and so do wickedly in betraying the truth.

“As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice,(A)
    the Almighty,(B) who has made my life bitter,(C)
as long as I have life within me,
    the breath of God(D) in my nostrils,
my lips will not say anything wicked,
    and my tongue will not utter lies.(E)

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