Job 27:4
Good News Translation
my lips will never say anything evil, my tongue will never tell a lie.

New Revised Standard Version
my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.

Contemporary English Version
I will tell only the truth.

New American Bible
My lips shall not speak falsehood, nor my tongue utter deceit!

Douay-Rheims Bible
My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.

Job 13:7 Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him?

Job 34:6 For in judging me there is a lie: my arrow is violent without any sin.

John 8:55 And you have not known him: but I know him. And if I shall say that I know him not, I shall be like to you, a liar. But I do know him and do keep his word.

2 Corinthians 11:10 The truth of Christ is in me, that this glorying shall not be broken off in me in the regions of Achaia.

Context
Job Affirms His Integrity
3As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils, 4My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.5God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.…
Cross References
Job 6:28
However, finish what you have begun: give ear and see whether I lie.

Job 13:7
Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him?

Job 16:17
These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God.

Job 24:25
And if it be not so, who can convince me that I have lied, and set my words before God?

Job 33:3
My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence.

Job 27:3
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