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Job 27:6 — King James Version← Study notes

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.


Job 27:6Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 27:68 words
HebrewMeaning
בְּ/צִדְקָתִ֣/יbəṣidəqātiy
on righteousness mypronH6666
moderately · right (act · -ly · -ness)
הֶ֭חֱזַקְתִּיheḥĕzaqətiy
I have kept holdverbH2388
amend · calker · catch · cleave ···
וְ/לֹ֣אwəlōʾ
and notconjH3808
before · or else · except · ig ···
אַרְפֶּ֑/הָʾarəpehā
I will let go itverbH7503
cease · consume · draw · fail ···
לֹֽאlōʾ
notparticleH3808
before · or else · except · ig ···
יֶחֱרַ֥ףyeḥĕrap
it reproachesverbH2778
blaspheme · defy · jeopard · rail ···
לְ֝בָבִ֗/יləbābiy
heart mynounH3824
bethink themselves · comfortably · courage · heart ···
מִ/יָּמָֽ/יmiyāmāy
any of days mypronH3117
always · chronicals · continually · daily ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 27:6

My righteousness, which I began to hold fast, I will not abandon. For ‘his righteousness’ that he had ‘begun with,’ he would ‘abandon,’ if he went out of the way into the praising of persons committing sin. But because we then more truly keep away from the sins of others when we first keep ourselves safe from our own, why he is so afraid to be guilty touching those, he gives the grounds of the principle, when he adds; For neither doth mine heart reproach me in all my…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 18 §8
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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