Job 34:6
4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.
5 For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
7 What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
8 Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
- KJV
- Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
- WEB
- Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’
- ASV
- Notwithstanding my right I am [accounted] a liar; My wound is incurable, [though I am] without transgression.
- DARBY
- Should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable without transgression.
- BLB
- [And] over my justice should I lie? Mortal [is] my arrow, without transgression.’
- ÅB
- tross min rett skal jeg være en løgner; en drepende pil har rammet meg, enda der ingen brøde er hos meg.
- OTB
- Selv om jeg er uten feil, blir jeg ansett som en løgner;
mitt sår er uhelbredelig, selv om jeg er skyldfri.’ - B1930
- tross min rett skal jeg være en løgner; en drepende pil har rammet mig, enda der ingen brøde er hos mig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Read in contextJob 16:13
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
Read in contextJob 27:4–6
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Read in context