My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Taken with the statement just before it, the verse shows the spirit of God in the nostrils to be the breath of life from God, and so long as that breath stays in a person he lives. In that living state Job declares and resolves that his lips will speak no wickedness and his tongue will utter no deceit. By that resolve he insists he has kept his integrity and knows himself to be upright. He holds that integrity though he cannot understand God's dealings with him, refusing to charge God foolishly. The declaration belongs to his challenge to his friends and his appeal for God to judge him if his moral character is stained, for they condemn him yet cannot convict him of sin.
Taken with the statement just before it, the verse shows the spirit of God in the nostrils to be the breath of life from God, and so long as that breath stays in a person he lives.
In that living state Job declares and resolves that his lips will speak no wickedness and his tongue will utter no deceit.
By that resolve he insists he has kept his integrity and knows himself to be upright.
He holds that integrity though he cannot understand God's dealings with him, refusing to charge God foolishly.
The declaration belongs to his challenge to his friends and his appeal for God to judge him if his moral character is stained, for they condemn him yet cannot convict him of sin.