What Does Job 27:6 Mean in the King James?
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse holds righteousness as an alignment that is neither released nor reproached by the heart.
THE MEANING
Your alignment is something you hold without loosening. The heart remains its witness, and it does not reproach you through your days. The verse speaks of a steadiness that reaches into the inner life.
THE ROOT
צִדְקָתִי
tsidqati
GROWS FROM
צדק
ts-d-q (tsedeq): alignment, right relation, justice.
צִדְקָתִי (tsidqati, my righteousness or alignment) grows from צדק (ts-d-q, alignment and right relation). Its neighbors make that alignment tangible: it is held fast, not loosened, and its integrity stands before the heart’s witness.
ALSO GROWS
tsedeq: rightness, justice, alignment
צֶדֶק
This noun names the right relation that Job holds fast.
tsaddiq: one who is righteous or aligned
צַדִּיק
This related form shows the same root describing a person characterized by alignment.
אַרְפֶּה
arpeh
GROWS FROM
רפה
raphah (r-p-h): slacken, loosen, release.
אַרְפֶּה (arpeh, I will loosen or release) is the word behind “let it go”; its root also describes becoming slack. The verse sets the held alignment against release itself: Job says he will not loosen his hold.
ALSO GROWS
raphah: to slacken, loosen, or release
רָפָה
This verb makes explicit the loosening Job refuses.
rapheh: slack, weak, or relaxed
רָפֶה
This related form shows the state of slackness that the verse’s “I will not let it go” resists.
תֻמָּתִי
tummati
GROWS FROM
תמם
tamam (t-m-m): be complete, whole, brought to full measure.
תֻמָּתִי (tummati, my integrity) comes from תמם (tamam, to be complete or whole). This completeness sits beside the heart’s non-reproach, so the verse describes inward wholeness held through one’s days.
ALSO GROWS
tamam: to be complete or come to completion
תָּמַם
This verb makes the root’s sense of becoming whole explicit.
tamim: whole, complete, sound, or unblemished
תָּמִים
This related form carries the root’s sense of integrity as wholeness.
THE PATTERN
Integrity is a steady alignment that the heart can witness and the life can carry.
A Psalm of David. Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.THE THREAD
Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.Isaiah uses the same צדק (ts-d-q, alignment) root while placing instruction in the heart beside public reproach. The shared root opens Job’s held alignment into something carried inwardly, even under accusation.
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