Job 6:29
Good News Translation
You have gone far enough. Stop being unjust. Don't condemn me. I'm in the right.

New Revised Standard Version
Turn, I pray, let no wrong be done. Turn now, my vindication is at stake.

Contemporary English Version
Stop accusing me falsely; my reputation is at stake.

New American Bible
Think it over; let there be no injustice. Think it over; I still am right.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that which is just, judge ye.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that which is just, judge ye.

Return.

Job 17:10 Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man.

Malachi 3:18 And you shall return, and shall see the difference between the just and the wicked: and between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

my righteousness.

Job 27:4-6 My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying. . . .

in it.

Context
Job Replies: My Complaint is Just
28However, finish what you have begun: give ear and see whether I lie. 29Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that which is just, judge ye.30And you shall not find iniquity in my tongue, neither shall folly sound in my mouth.…
Cross References
Job 10:15
And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery.

Job 12:4
He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn.

Job 13:18
If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.

Job 19:6
At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.

Job 23:10
But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire:

Job 27:5
God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.

Job 27:6
My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.

Job 34:5
For Job hath said: I am just, and God hath overthrown my judgment.

Job 42:1
Then Job answered the Lord, and said:

Job 6:28
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