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Wycliffe Bible

Job 27:4

my lippis schulen not speke wickidnesse, nether my tunge schal thenke a leesyng.

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.
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 King James Version
My lips will 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 Also Joob addide, takynge his parable, and seide, 2 God lyueth, that hath take awey my doom, and Almyyti God, that hath brouyt my soule to bitternesse. 3 For as long as breeth is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nose thirlis, 4 my lippis schulen not speke wickidnesse, nether my tunge schal thenke a leesyng. 5 Fer be it fro me, that Y deme you iust; til Y faile, Y schal not go awei fro myn innocence. 6 Y schal not forsake my iustifiyng, which Y bigan to holde; for myn herte repreueth me not in al my lijf.

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 blesside Abram, and seide, Blessid be Abram of hiy God, that made heuene and erthe of nouyt,
Genesis 24:60
and seiden, Thou art oure sister, encreesse thou in to a thousand thousandis, and thi seed gete the yatis of hise enemyes.
Genesis 27:1
Forsothe Isaac wexe eld, and hise iyen dasewiden, and he miyte not se. And he clepide Esau, his more sone, and seide to hym, My sone! Which answerde, Y am present.
Genesis 27:7
and make thow metis, that Y ete, and that Y blesse thee bifor the Lord bifor that Y die.
Genesis 27:15
and sche clothide Jacob in ful goode clothis of Esau, whiche sche hadde at home anentis hir silf.
Genesis 27:20
Eft Ysaac seide to his sone, My sone, hou miytist thou fynde so soone? Which answerde, It was Goddis wille, that this that Y wolde schulde come soone to me.
Genesis 27:22
He neiyede to the fadir; and whanne he hadde feelid hym, Isaac seide, Sotheli the vois is the vois of Jacob, but the hondis ben the hondis of Esau.
Genesis 27:23
And Isaac knew not Jacob, for the heery hondis expressiden the licnesse of the more sone.
Genesis 27:25
And Isaac seide, My sone, brynge thou to me metis of thin huntyng, that my soule blesse thee. And whanne Isaac hadde ete these metis brouyt, Jacob brouyte also wyn to Isaac, and whanne this was drunkun,
Genesis 27:27
Jacob neiyede, and kisside hym; and anoon as Isaac feelide the odour of hise clothis, he blesside him, and seide, Lo! the odour of my sone as the odour of a `feeld ful which the Lord hath blessid.

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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