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New King James Version

Job 27:4

My lips will not speak wickedness, Nor my tongue utter deceit.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Deceit;   Falsehood;   Integrity;   Speaking;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Deceit;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Guilt;   Slothful;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;   Lip;   Providence;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Job, Book of;   Mutter;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
my lips will not speak unjustly,and my tongue will not utter deceit.
Hebrew Names Version
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
King James Version
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
English Standard Version
my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
New Century Version
my lips will not speak evil, and my tongue will not tell a lie.
New English Translation
my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will whisper no deceit.
Amplified Bible
My lips will not speak unjustly, Nor will my tongue utter deceit.
New American Standard Bible
My lips certainly will not speak unjustly, Nor will my tongue mutter deceit.
World English Bible
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
Geneva Bible (1587)
My lips surely shall speake no wickednesse, and my tongue shall vtter no deceite.
Legacy Standard Bible
My lips certainly will not speak unrighteousness,Nor will my tongue utter deceit.
Berean Standard Bible
my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
Contemporary English Version
I will tell only the truth.
Complete Jewish Bible
my lips will not speak unrighteousness, or my tongue utter deceit.
Darby Translation
My lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor my tongue utter deceit!
Easy-to-Read Version
I will not be a hypocrite. I will not lie.
George Lamsa Translation
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Good News Translation
my lips will never say anything evil, my tongue will never tell a lie.
Lexham English Bible
my lips surely will not speak falseness, and my tongue surely will not utter deceit.
Literal Translation
my lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
whyle my breth is in me, and as longe as the wynde (that God hath geuen me) is in my nostrels.
American Standard Version
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
Bible in Basic English
Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit;
King James Version (1611)
My lips shall not speake wickednesse, nor my tongue vtter deceit.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
My lippes shall talke of no vanitie, and my tongue shall speake no disceite.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
my lips shall not speak evil words, neither shall my soul meditate unrighteous thoughts.
English Revised Version
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
my lippis schulen not speke wickidnesse, nether my tunge schal thenke a leesyng.
Update Bible Version
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
Webster's Bible Translation
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
New Living Translation
my lips will speak no evil, and my tongue will speak no lies.
New Life Bible
my lips will not speak what is not true, and my tongue will not lie.
New Revised Standard
my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Verily my lips shall not speak perversity, nor shall, my tongue, utter deceit.
Douay-Rheims Bible
My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.
Revised Standard Version
my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
Young's Literal Translation
My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
My lips certainly will not speak unjustly, Nor will my tongue mutter deceit.

Contextual Overview

1 Moreover Job continued his discourse, and said: 2 "As God lives, who has taken away my justice, And the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter, 3 As long as my breath is in me, And the breath of God in my nostrils, 4 My lips will not speak wickedness, Nor my tongue utter deceit. 5 Far be it from me That I should say you are right; Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me. 6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go; My heart shall not reproach me as long as I live.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 13:7, Job 34:6, John 8:55, 2 Corinthians 11:10

Reciprocal: Job 6:29 - my righteousness Job 32:1 - righteous Job 33:3 - the

Cross-References

Genesis 14:19
And he blessed him and said: "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth;
Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her: "Our sister, may you become The mother of thousands of ten thousands; And may your descendants possess The gates of those who hate them."
Genesis 27:1
Now it came to pass, when Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim that he could not see, that he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." And he answered him, "Here I am."
Genesis 27:7
"Bring me game and make savory food for me, that I may eat it and bless you in the presence of the LORD before my death.'
Genesis 27:15
Then Rebekah took the choice clothes of her elder son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.
Genesis 27:20
But Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" And he said, "Because the LORD your God brought it to me."
Genesis 27:22
So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
Genesis 27:23
And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.
Genesis 27:25
He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's game, so that my soul may bless you." So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.
Genesis 27:27
And he came near and kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him and said: "Surely, the smell of my son Is like the smell of a field Which the LORD has blessed.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My lips shall not speak wickedness,.... This is the thing he swears to, this the matter of his oath, not only that he would not speak a wicked word not anything corrupt, unsavoury, unchaste, profane, and idle nor speak evil of his neighbours and friends or of any man; but that he would not speak wickedly of himself, as he must do, if he owned himself to be a wicked man and an hypocrite as his friends charged him, and they would have had him confessed; but he swears he would not utter such wickedness as long as he had any breath in him:

nor my tongue utter deceit; which respects the same thing; not merely any fallacy or lie, or what might impose upon and deceive another, which yet he was careful of; but such deceit and falsehood as would be a belying himself, which would be the case should he say that he was devoid of integrity and sincerity.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My lips shall not speak wickedness - This solemn profession made on oath might have done something to allay the suspicions of his friends in regard to him, and to show that they had been mistaken in his character. It is a solemn assurance that he did not mean to vindicate the cause of wickedness, or to say one word in its favor; and that as long as he lived he would never be found advocating it.

Nor my tongue utter deceit - I will never make any use of sophistry; I will not attempt to make “the worse appear the better reason;” I will not be the advocate of error. This had always been the aim of Job, and he now says that no circumstance should ever induce him to pursue a different course as long as he lived. Probably he means, also, as the following verse seems to imply, that no consideration should ever induce him to countenance error or to palliate wrong. He would not be deterred from expressing his sentiments by any dread of opposition, or even by any respect for his friends. No friendship which he might have for them would induce him to justify what he honestly regarded as error.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 27:4. My lips shall not speak wickedness — As I have hitherto lived in all good conscience before God, as he knoweth, so will I continue to live.


 
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