Job 1:1
Job 1:11There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.
Cited as the framing setup for the Job narrative — Job is a faithful worshipper of Jehovah, blameless and integrity-bound, whose sufferings illustrate divine justice and the integrity-keeping principle the Watchtower emphasises. The verse is rarely engaged with in the birthday- ban argument, even though (his sons feasting "each on his own set day") and (Job cursing the day of his birth) sit in the same chapter cycle.
Job is the patriarchal counter-example to any reading of Scripture that treats family feasting and the day of one's birth as unknown among the righteous. The man echoes — and whose son-feasts open and whose own birth-day curse opens — is described in this opening verse as "blameless," "upright," god-fearing, and turning away from evil. Whatever his sons were doing in 1:4 and whatever Job himself referenced in 3:1, this is the man the Spirit calls righteous. The texts incompatible with the Watchtower's birthday rule are nested inside the life of the man the Bible most carefully calls blameless.
Where the older English tradition reads "perfect" or "blameless" (KJV, ESV, NASB) for the Hebrew tām, the NWT renders "upright man of integrity." Tām carries the moral force of "complete, blameless, whole" — a man without flaw in the eyes God has chosen to evaluate him. "Of integrity" is defensible but lighter; the published English reader receives a weaker descriptor than the Hebrew supports. The effect is small at this verse but coheres with the broader Watchtower preference for "integrity" as the central virtue of discipleship — vocabulary that maps more easily to organisational loyalty than the older tradition of imputed and lived blamelessness.