Job 34:5
3 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
6 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
7 What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning 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 God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
Read in contextJob 33:9
I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
Read in contextJob 32:1
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Read in contextJob 16:17
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
Read in contextJob 9:17
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
Read in contextJob 11:4
For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
Read in contextJob 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Read in contextJob 10:7
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
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