Job 27:6 (KJV)
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

It seems to me that Job’s struggle boils down to that of faith or works. Job’s friends kept taking him back to good works. His pain, so they believed, must be proof that his “religion” was wrong. They preached to Job a religion of works, self-righteousness and of consequences for disobedience. Job insisted that his righteousness was of faith, not religion.

If we define righteousness as faith, then Job’s tenacity in verse six becomes more meaningful. He was not defending his own good works. He was rather defending the promise of God, “Abraham believed God and it was accounted unto him for righteousness.”

This is the believer’s constant struggle:
 The world
 The devil
 The friends
 The circumstances sometimes
 The family and most of the time
 The flesh
All drive us to trusting in ourselves.

Let us, as did Job, hold fast our righteousness in Christ.