Job 27:3

Job 27:3

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Job Maintains His Integrity

1 Moreover Job continued his discourse, and said:

2 “As God lives, ^awho has taken away my justice,
And the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,

3 As long as my breath is in me,
And the breath of God in my nostrils,

4 My lips will not speak wickedness,
Nor my tongue utter deceit.

5 Far be it from me
That I should say you are right;
Till I die ^aI will not put away my integrity from me.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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All the while my breath is in me - As Job appears to allude to the creation of Adam, whom God made out of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, so that he became a living soul, the whole of Job' s assertion may be no more than a periphrasis for As long as I live and have my understanding. Indeed nishmathi may be rendered my mind or understanding, and ruach Eloah , the breath of God, the principle of animal life, the same that he breathed into Adam; for it is there said, Genesis 2:7, He breathed into his nostrils, nismath chaiyim , the breath of lives, or that principle from which animal and spiritual life proceeds; in consequence of which he became lenephesh chaiyah , an intelligent or rational animal.

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