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Far be it from me to account you right;
    till I die I will not renounce my innocence.(A)
My justice I maintain and I will not relinquish it;
    my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
[a]Let my enemy be as the wicked
    and my adversary as the unjust!

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Footnotes

  1. 27:7–23 These verses are inconsistent with Job’s views elsewhere, and may be part of a missing speech of Zophar; cf. notes on 24:18–24 and 25:1. Or possibly they are an ironic description of the fate of the three friends.