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Job 27 Bible study: Until I die
Job swears that God "has taken away my right" (27:2) and that he will not "put away my integrity" (27:5): in Hebrew taken away and put away are one verb. And integrity and hold fast (27:5-6) are the words of chapter 2's "He still maintains his integrity" (2:3).
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“Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.”
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“Later in the book, Elihu says Job has said that God has taken away his right.”
Is that in Job 27, or not? Make your call.
What's really going on
"Job again took up his parable"
Every word of this chapter is Job's. He had already answered Bildad: "Then Job answered" (26:1). Now, with no one else speaking in between, the book gives him a second heading: "Job again took up his parable, and said" (27:1) (tap parable). In Hebrew again took up opens with vayyosef, a verb that begins only three headings in the book: this one, the same words at 29:1, and "Elihu also continued, and said" (36:1). Parable is mashal, the word of Balaam's "He took up his parable" (Numbers 23:7), and Job had used it of the friends: "Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes" (13:12). Chapter 28 has no heading of its own, so the next heading after 27:1 is 29:1. By the headings, then, Job speaks every verse of this chapter, the end of it too. In Hebrew the you of "Far be it from me that I should justify you" (27:5) and of "I will teach you about the hand of God" (27:11) is plural, and 27:12 says it outright: "Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves". Job is speaking to the friends.
Where it leads to Jesus
Out of the heart, the mouth
Job 27:4leads toLuke 6:45
Job swears, "surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit" (27:4), and says, "My heart will not reproach me so long as I live" (27:6). Jesus spoke of the heart and the mouth together: "for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks" (Luke 6:45). Luke doesn't name Job, so setting the two side by side is a reading, resting on a shared subject: what the mouth speaks, and the heart. Some read them together: Job's oath is about what his lips and tongue will speak (27:4) and about his heart (27:6), and Jesus says the mouth speaks out of the heart. Others read each in its own setting: Job is swearing about himself to his friends (27:5), and Jesus was teaching his disciples (Luke 6:20) about the good man and the evil man, and said nothing of Job. Neither reading says whether Job's oath is right, or makes Job a picture of Jesus.
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- "As God lives"
- "The portion of a wicked man"
- "The hope of the godless"
- "The Almighty, who has made my soul bitter"
- 9 questions as you read
- 14 more Hebrew words
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The Hebrew word behind it
תֻּמָּהtummahsay toom-MAH
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "integrity". Strong's: "innocence". "Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me" (27:5). It is the word of the LORD's "He still maintains his integrity" (2:3) and of Job's wife's "Do you still maintain your integrity?" (2:9). It comes five times in the Hebrew Bible, four of them in Job: those two, here, and "let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity" (31:6). The fifth is "The integrity of the upright shall guide them" (Proverbs 11:3).
For your group
Job 27 Bible study questions
- 1"I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go" (27:6). When have you had to hold on to what you knew was true while people you trusted told you otherwise?
- 2"surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit" (27:4). Where is it hardest for you to keep your words honest, and why?
- 3Job asks whether the godless will "call on God at all times" (27:10). What does calling on God look like for you when no trouble is pressing?
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