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Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
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A Solemn Stand for Truth
Commentators explain that Job's statement is a powerful and solemn refusal to validate his friends' accusations. He considers it "profane" to agree with their flawed theology and call himself a hypocrite. He is determined to hold onto the truth of his integrity, which God Himself had affirmed, no matter the social pressure.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
God forbid - לי חלילה châlı̂ylâh lı̂y. “Far be it from me.” Literally, “It would be profane to …
19th Century
Anglican
God forbid that I should justify you. —To admit the wickedness with which his friends charged him would have been to just…
Baptist
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,…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
God forbid that I should justify you Not but that he counted them righteous and good men God-ward; he did not take u…
Job's friends now allowed him to speak, and he proceeded in a serious and useful manner. Job had confidence in the goodness both of his cause and o…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, Job had successfully refuted the speech of Bildad, who had cited divine power against him as if Job were ignorant of its greatness. Whe…
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