The Meaning of Job 27:4 Explained

Job 27:4

KJV: My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

YLT: My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.

Darby: My lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor my tongue utter deceit!

ASV: Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

My lips  shall not speak  wickedness,  nor my tongue  utter  deceit. 

What does Job 27:4 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 27:1-23 - The Justice Of God
Zophar ought now to have taken up the discourse, but, as he is silent, Job proceeds. First he renews his protestations of integrity, Job 27:1-10. He denies the charge of being ungodly, and says that till he dies he will not put away his integrity. He refuses to justify the accusations of his friends, and demands that they who had spoken against him should suffer the punishments which they had suggested as his due, Job 27:7. The falsity of their charges was surely evidenced by the fact that he could still delight in the Almighty and call upon His name, Job 27:10.
Then he speaks of the portion of the wicked, Job 27:11-23. Zophar and the rest could hardly have spoken more strongly. Though Job denied the application to himself, he was willing to admit the general truth of these propositions. Through what marvelous alternations the mind of man passes-now on the crest of the wave and again in the trough; arguing, debating, questioning; now antagonizing a position, and then almost accepting it! But be of good cheer! "At eventide it shall be light!" "I have been within the gates," said one brave explorer, "and there is no dark valley." [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 27

1  Job protests his sincerity
8  The hypocrite is without hope
11  The blessings which the wicked have are turned into curses

What do the individual words in Job 27:4 mean?

not will speak My lips wickedness and my tongue nor utter deceit
אִם־ תְּדַבֵּ֣רְנָה שְׂפָתַ֣י עַוְלָ֑ה וּ֝לְשׁוֹנִ֗י אִם־ יֶהְגֶּ֥ה רְמִיָּֽה

תְּדַבֵּ֣רְנָה  will  speak 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Imperfect, third person feminine plural
Root: דָּבַר 
Sense: to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing.
שְׂפָתַ֣י  My  lips 
Parse: Noun, fdc, first person common singular
Root: שָׂפָה  
Sense: lip, language, speech, shore, bank, brink, brim, side, edge, border, binding.
עַוְלָ֑ה  wickedness 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: עָוֶל 
Sense: injustice, unrighteousness, wrong.
וּ֝לְשׁוֹנִ֗י  and  my  tongue 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, common singular construct, first person common singular
Root: לָשֹׁון  
Sense: tongue.
אִם־  nor 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: אִם  
Sense: if.
יֶהְגֶּ֥ה  utter 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: הָגָה  
Sense: to moan, growl, utter, muse, mutter, meditate, devise, plot, speak.
רְמִיָּֽה  deceit 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: רְמִיָּה 
Sense: laxness, slackness, slackening, deceit, treachery.

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