Charles Spurgeon Commentary Job 27:5

"Far be it from me that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me." — Job 27:5 (ASV)

We are bound to keep to the truth. No man is permitted, with mock humility, to make himself out to be what he is not.

Job was right, so far, in standing up for the integrity of his character, for he was a man of such uprightness that even the devil could not find fault with him.

He was such a holy man that God could say to 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 all that the devil could do was to insinuate that he had a selfish motive for his goodness: "Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face."

Job was upright, yet we are never so right but that there is a mixture of wrong with our right.

A man may very easily become self-righteous when he is defending his own character. There may be a lack of admissions of faults unperceived; there may be a blindness to faults that ought to have been perceived; and something of that imperfection, doubtless, was in the patriarch.