Job 27:6

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I (e) live.

(e) Of my life past.

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Reproach — With betraying my own cause and innocency.

⁶ My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

Related Commentaries of Job 27:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 27:6