Job 34:5
3 For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
4 Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.
For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
6 Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
7 What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
- KJV
- For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
- WEB
- For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right.
- ASV
- For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:
- DARBY
- For Job hath said, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my judgment:
- BLB
- For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, and God has turned aside my justice.
- ÅB
- Job har jo sagt: Jeg er rettferdig, og Gud har tatt min rett fra meg;
- OTB
- For Job har sagt: ‘Jeg er rettferdig,
men Gud har nektet meg rettferdighet. - B1930
- Job har jo sagt: Jeg er rettferdig, og Gud har tatt min rett fra mig;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 27:2
“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice— the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—
Read in contextJob 33:9
‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
Read in contextJob 32:1
So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Read in contextJob 16:17
yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
Read in contextJob 9:17
For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
Read in contextJob 11:4
You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’
Read in contextJob 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.
Read in contextJob 10:7
though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
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