Job 6:29
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Returne, I pray you, let it not be iniquitie; yea returne againe: my righteousnesse † is in it.
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- †Translator clarificationThat is, in this matter.
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- Job 27:4–6Rank 3 from verse 29
4My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
5God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
6My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
4My lips shall not speake wickednesse, nor my tongue vtter deceit.
5God forbid that I should iustifie you: till I die, I will not remoue my integritie from me.
6My righteousnesse I hold fast, and will not let it goe: my heart shall not reproach me †so long as I liue.
- Malachi 3:18Rank 6 from verse 29
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Job 6:29
Sense 1: To go, come, send, or give back; to restore, answer, or turn again. Sense 2: The act or time of coming back or recurring.
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Sense 1: To ask, beseech, request, or entreat. Sense 2: To make requests or supplications to God, or address him in worship.
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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.
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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.
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Wickedness, unrighteousness, transgression, or sin; the guilt or burden of such wrongdoing.
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1. Indeed, marking confirmation, emphasis, addition, continuation, or heightening of what is said; it may also emphasize a question. 2. Yes, expressing an affirmative answer or declaration.
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Another time; once more; back to a former place or condition; or in return.
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righteousness
The state or character of being righteous; justice, uprightness, or conformity to what is right.
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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.
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28Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
28Now therefore be content, looke vpon mee, for it is †euident vnto you, if I lie.
29Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
29Returne, I pray you, let it not be iniquitie; yea returne againe: my righteousnesse † is in it.
Selected passage30Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
30Is there iniquitie in my tongue? cannot †my taste discerne peruerse things?