Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 27:1 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 1. 1Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
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Role in This Section
Job 27:1 opens the thought unit with the words “Moreover Job continued his parable, and said.” Job develops the next stated step through “Moreover Job continued his parable, and said” as part of Job Swears to Hold Fast His Integrity.
Read It With
- Job 27:1–27:6
Read Job 27:1 with 27:1–27:6. Read alone, “Moreover Job continued his parable, and said” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job takes up a formal saying and vows that while breath remains he will not speak deceit or concede the friends' case, keeping hold of righteousness and conscience.
Why It Needs Context
Job 27:1 depends on 27:1–27:6; isolating “Moreover Job continued his parable, and said” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Job and “Job Swears to Hold Fast His Integrity.”
Read Job 27:1–6 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 27:1–27:6 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Job Swears to Hold Fast His Integrity.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 1. 1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
Verse 2. 2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
Verse 3. 3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
Verse 4. 4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Verse 5. 5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
Verse 6. 6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Continue in Context
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Read Job 27:1–27:6 — Job Swears to Hold Fast His IntegritySources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 27:1–27:6, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 27:1–27:6
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