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Job 27:5-6
5 God forbid [chaliylah] that I should justify [tsadaq] you: till I die [gava`] I will not remove [cuwr] mine integrity [tummah] from me.
6 My righteousness [tsadaqah] I hold [chazaq] fast, and will not let it go [raphah]: my heart [lebab] shall not reproach [charaph.] me so long as I live [yowm]. KJV-Interlinear
5 'Far be it from me that I should declare you right; Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me. 6 'I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go. My heart does not reproach any of my days. NASB
Truth is the perfect matching of facts with reality. When facts are replaced with opinion, consensus, conjecture, or anything else, then it is no longer the truth, but the opposite - a lie.
People who reject truth, will stop at no limits in their attempt to prevent truth. People who avoid truth will do their best to prevent others from hearing truth. People who are indifferent toward truth, will not hold back in inventing their own beliefs. People who hold a disdain for truth will conspire and even manufacture phenomenal webs of lies in order to discredit and confuse truth. People who oppose truth will invent their own opinions, beliefs and philosophies, regardless of facts.
But truth needs no ally. Truth needs no crutch to support it. Truth needs no support from other opinions.
Truth is self-evident. Truth is always obvious to those who are tolerant and patient, and objective in their approach to life. Truth is always made clear to those who function (legitimately) within their spiritual lives.
Truth comes only from God. Truth is communicated only by means of the Holy Spirit. Truth is only perceived from within the fellowship sphere. Truth is only useful to the believer who is advancing in their spiritual life.
Any compromise of truth, any dilution of truth, any modification of truth, any alternative to truth is a lie.
Sincerity, strong opinions, strong feelings, outgoing or inward personality attributes, or moral standards are not evidence of truth nor are they substitutes for truth.
Job makes all of his comments from a position of truth. Since truth cannot be defeated, standing with truth is never a losing decision. There is never anything to be gained by setting truth aside.
Job has been hammered repeatedly by his friends. Job has been suffering immensely for quite some time now. Job has had many opportunities to disavow truth. It would have been very easy to just let his friends win their argument, to give in to their public opinion peer pressure, to just let go in hopes that all of this pressure will simply disappear.
All of the observable evidence was on the side of his friends, and the apparent lack of action directly from God could easily have made Job slip into anxiety and anxious self-pity.
But Job lived his life based on the principles taught in the scriptures. Job did not live or form his life based on the opinions of others, even while being exposed to the public eye.
A life based on true, repeat, 'true' principles can never be moved.
A life based on invented principles will always eventually fail.
The mature believer in silence, speaks louder than the most violent thunderstorm.
Those who are spiritually deficient have no choice but to bring noise and cause adversarial disruption to society, and they will end up no better off than one standing before a strong downwind, making themselves wet from doing what they only know how to do into the wind.
