Job 27:7

"I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live."

Key Reflection

In Job 27:7, the speaker asserts a unwavering commitment to his own integrity and uprightness, finding solace in the knowledge that he has lived with a clear conscience. This conviction provides him with inner peace, ensuring his heart finds no fault with him as long as he lives, even amidst great suffering.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Let mine enemy be as the wicked -This is probably said that he might show that it was not his intention to justify the wicked, and that in all that he had said it was no part of his purpose to express approbation of their course. His friends had charged him with this; but he now solemnly disclaims it, and says that he had no such design. To show how little he meant to justify the wicked, he says that the utmost that he could desire for an enemy would be, that he would be treated as he believed the wicked would be.

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