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OET (OET-RV) I’ll never say that you all are correct—
⇔ I won’t set aside my integrity before I die.
OET-LV Far_be_it to/for_me if I_will_declare_right DOM_you_all until I_will_expire not I_will_put_aside integrity_my from_me.
UHB חָלִ֣ילָה לִּי֮ אִם־אַצְדִּ֪יק אֶ֫תְכֶ֥ם עַד־אֶגְוָ֑ע לֹא־אָסִ֖יר תֻּמָּתִ֣י מִמֶּֽנִּי׃ ‡
(ḩāliylāh liy ʼim-ʼaʦddiyq ʼetkem ˊad-ʼegvāˊ loʼ-ʼāşiyr tummātiy mimmennī.)
Key: yellow:verbs, red:negative.
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ULT Sacrilege to me if I justify you!
⇔ Until I expire, I will not turn my integrity away from me.
UST And so I will never say that what you three have said about me is true.
⇔ Until the day that I die, I will insist that I have been living as God wants people to live.
BSB I will never say that you are right;
⇔ I will maintain my integrity until I die.
OEB God forbid I shoud grant ye were right;
⇔ I will cling to mine innocence till I die.
WEB Far be it from me that I should justify you.
⇔ Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
NET I will never declare that you three are in the right;
⇔ until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!
LSV Defilement to me—if I justify you,
Until I expire I do not turn aside my integrity from me.
FBV I will never agree that you are right; I will insist on my innocence until the day I die.
T4T I will never admit that what you three have said is true;
⇔ until the day that I die, I will insist that I have not done things that are wrong.
LEB • [fn] are right[fn] until I pass away, I will not put away from me my blamelessness.
BBE Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness.
MOF No MOF JOB book available
JPS Far be it from me that I should justify you; till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.
ASV Far be it from me that I should justify you:
⇔ Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.
DRA God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.
YLT Pollution to me — if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me.
DBY Be it far from me that I should justify you; till I die I will not remove my blamelessness from me.
RV God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.
WBS Far be it from me that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove my integrity from me.
KJB God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
BB God forbyd that I should graunt your cause to be right: As for me, vntill myne end come will I neuer go fro myne innocentie.
(God forbyd that I should grant your cause to be right: As for me, until mine end come will I never go from mine innocentie.)
GNV God forbid, that I should iustifie you: vntill I dye, I will neuer take away mine innocencie from my selfe.
(God forbid, that I should iustifie you: until I dye, I will never take away mine innocencie from my self. )
CB God forbydde, that I shulde graunte youre cause to be right. As for me, vntill myne ende come wil I neuer go fro myne innocency.
(God forbydde, that I should grant your(pl) cause to be right. As for me, until mine end come will I never go from mine innocency.)
WYC Fer be it fro me, that Y deme you iust; til Y faile, Y schal not go awei fro myn innocence.
(Fer be it from me, that I deme you iust; til I faile, I shall not go away from mine innocence.)
LUT Das sei ferne von mir, daß ich euch recht gebe; bis daß mein Ende kommt, will ich nicht weichen von meiner Frömmigkeit.
(The be ferne from mir, that I you recht gebe; until that my Ende kommt, will I not weichen from my Frömmigkeit.)
CLV Absit a me ut justos vos esse judicem: donec deficiam, non recedam ab innocentia mea.[fn]
(Absit a me as justos vos esse yudicem: until deficiam, not/no recedam away innocentia my.)
27.5 Absit a me. Quia dicit Salomon: Qui justificat impium, et qui condemnat justum, uterque abominabilis est ante Deum. Et hoc est: Absit a me. Ab innocentia enim recederet, si bona de illis malis æstimaret.
27.5 Absit a me. Quia dicit Salomon: Who justificat impium, and who condemnat justum, uterque abominabilis it_is ante God. And hoc it_is: Absit a me. Ab innocentia because recederet, when/but_if good about illis malis æstimaret.
BRN Far be it from me that I should justify you till I die; for I will not let go my innocence,
BrLXX Μή μοι εἴη δικαίους ὑμᾶς ἀποφῆναι ἕως ἂν ἀποθάνω, οὐ γὰρ ἀπαλλάξω μου τὴν ἀκακίαν μου.
(Maʸ moi eiaʸ dikaious humas apofaʸnai heōs an apothanō, ou gar apallaxō mou taʸn akakian mou. )
27:5-6 Job considered it profane and reprehensible to concede that his friends were right. Condemning the innocent, as they were doing to him, was an abomination (Exod 23:7; Prov 6:16-19; 17:15).
Job’s Innocence
Job’s comforters could not stomach the idea that any human could be truly innocent (Job 4:17-19; 15:14-16; 25:4-6). Job’s claim to innocence also seems to conflict with the biblical teaching that “no one is righteous—not even one. . . . All fall short of God’s glorious standard” (Rom 3:10, 23). Was Job right in proclaiming his innocence?
Eliphaz and the others talked right past Job. When they denied that Job could be right or pure, they were referring to the absolute difference between the creature and the Creator. But Job was not claiming absolute purity. He acknowledged his youthful sins (Job 13:26) and was aware of his need to have his sins and his guilt covered (14:16-17).
Nonetheless, Job repeatedly claimed to be a man of integrity and innocence in his relationship with God (13:14-18; 23:10-12; 27:3-6; 31:1-40). Even Eliphaz acknowledged that Job’s life was upright (4:6). Job’s faith made him doggedly pursue an audience with God and tenaciously believe in God’s justice despite his immediate experience. Job kept looking for his Redeemer (19:25). Although God’s justice might require a mediator (9:33-35), and it might not be evident before death (19:26), it guaranteed Job’s acquittal. Job lived “by believing and not by seeing” (2 Cor 5:7; see also Rom 8:24; 1 Cor 13:12; 2 Cor 4:18; Heb 11:1-2; 1 Pet 1:6-8).
When held up to the light of Christ’s absolute righteousness, Job stands with all of us as a sinner. Job was not justified by his deeds but by his faith, and on that basis God declared that Job was “blameless—a man of complete integrity” (Job 1:1, 8; 2:3; 42:7-8). God does the same for us when we, like Job, put our complete trust in him (see Rom 4:4-5; Jas 2:23).
Passages for Further Study
1 Kgs 8:46; Job 1:1, 8-11; 2:3-5; 4:6; 9:33-34; 13:18; 14:16-17; 15:14; 19:25-26; 23:10; 25:4; 27:5-6; 42:7-8; Pss 25:7; 37:37; 51:17; Ezek 4:14; Rom 3:10, 23, 25; 4:4-5; 6:23; 1 Cor 13:12; 2 Cor 4:18
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
חָלִ֣ילָה לִּי֮ אִם־אַצְדִּ֪יק אֶ֫תְכֶ֥ם
far_be_it, to/for=me if right DOM,you_all
Job is using this expression to mean that he would no more justify his friends (that is, agree that they are right) than he would commit a Sacrilege, that is, do something that he knew would be offensive to God in a religious sense. Your language may have an expression with a similar sense that you could use in your translation. Alternate translation: “God forbid that I justify you” or “Far be it from me to justify you”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / yousingular
אֶ֫תְכֶ֥ם
DOM,you_all
The word you is plural here because Job is addressing his three friends, so use the plural form in your translation if your language marks that distinction.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / euphemism
אֶגְוָ֑ע
die
See how you translated the term expire in 3:11. Alternate translation: “I pass away”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
לֹא־אָסִ֖יר תֻּמָּתִ֣י מִמֶּֽנִּי
not put_away integrity,my from,me
Job is speaking as if his integrity, meaning in this case his conviction that he has been acting properly, were a person whom he could turn away and make go somewhere else. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “I will keep insisting that I have been acting properly”