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Job 34:5

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blasphemy;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Right;   Take;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For Job has declared, “I am righteous,yet God has deprived me of justice.
Hebrew Names Version
For Iyov has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
King James Version
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
English Standard Version
For Job has said, ‘I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
New Century Version
"Job says, ‘I am not guilty, and God has refused me a fair trial.
New English Translation
For Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.
Amplified Bible
"For Job has said, 'I am righteous [and innocent], But God has taken away my right;
New American Standard Bible
"For Job has said, 'I am righteous, But God has taken away my right;
World English Bible
For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
Geneva Bible (1587)
For Iob hath saide, I am righteous, & God hath taken away my iudgement.
Legacy Standard Bible
For Job has said, ‘I am righteous,But God has removed my justice;
Berean Standard Bible
For Job has declared, 'I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
Contemporary English Version
Job claims he is innocent and God is guilty of mistreating him.
Complete Jewish Bible
For Iyov says, ‘I am in the right, but God is denying me justice.
Darby Translation
For Job hath said, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my judgment:
Easy-to-Read Version
Job says, ‘I am innocent, and God is not being fair to me.
George Lamsa Translation
For Job has said, I am righteous; and God has turned aside my judgment.
Good News Translation
Job claims that he is innocent, that God refuses to give him justice.
Lexham English Bible
for Job has said, ‘I am righteous, but God has taken away my justice.
Literal Translation
For Job has said, I am righteous; also, God has taken away my right;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And why? Iob hath sayde: I am rightuous, but God doth me wronge.
American Standard Version
For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:
Bible in Basic English
For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For Job hath said: 'I am righteous, and God hath taken away my right;
King James Version (1611)
For Iob hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my iudgement.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
[And why?] Iob hath sayd, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my iudgement.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For Job has said, I am righteous: the Lord has removed my judgment.
English Revised Version
For Job hath said, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my right:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For Job seide, Y am iust, and God hath distried my doom.
Update Bible Version
For Job has said, I am righteous, And God has taken away my right:
Webster's Bible Translation
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
New King James Version
"For Job has said, "I am righteous, But God has taken away my justice;
New Living Translation
For Job also said, ‘I am innocent, but God has taken away my rights.
New Life Bible
For Job has said, ‘I am right and good, but God has taken away my right.
New Revised Standard
For Job has said, ‘I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For Job hath said - I am righteous, But, GOD, hath turned away my right;
Douay-Rheims Bible
For Job hath said: I am just, and God hath overthrown my judgment.
Revised Standard Version
For Job has said, 'I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;
Young's Literal Translation
For Job hath said, `I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,
THE MESSAGE
"We've all heard Job say, ‘I'm in the right, but God won't give me a fair trial. When I defend myself, I'm called a liar to my face. I've done nothing wrong, and I get punished anyway.' Have you ever heard anything to beat this? Does nothing faze this man Job? Do you think he's spent too much time in bad company, hanging out with the wrong crowd, So that now he's parroting their line: ‘It doesn't pay to try to please God'?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For Job has said, 'I am righteous, But God has taken away my right;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I: Job 10:7, Job 11:4, Job 16:17, Job 29:14, Job 32:1, Job 33:9

God: Job 9:17, Job 27:2

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 15:20 - Yea Job 8:3 - God Job 9:2 - how Job 10:3 - Is it good Job 15:6 - thine own Job 19:7 - no judgment Job 32:2 - because Job 33:10 - he findeth Job 35:2 - My Job 36:3 - ascribe Job 40:8 - wilt thou condemn Isaiah 40:27 - my judgment Ezekiel 18:25 - way Malachi 2:17 - Every Acts 8:33 - judgment

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For Job hath said, I am righteous,.... Not in express words, but what amounted to it: no doubt he was a righteous man in an evangelic sense, being justified by the righteousness of Christ, as all the Old Testament saints were, who looked to him and believed in him as the Lord their righteousness, and said, as the church in those times did, "surely in the Lord have I righteousness and strength";

Isaiah 45:24. And moreover he was an upright man, to which the Lord himself bore testimony, Job 1:8; and had the truth of grace in him, that "new man which is created in righteousness and true holiness"; and also lived an holy life and conversation; but then he did not say or think that he was righteous in or of himself, or so as to be free from sin: Job could not judge or speak thus of himself, which would be contrary to what he expressly declares, Job 7:20; though it must be owned, that he thought himself so righteous, holy, and good, that he ought not to have been afflicted in the manner he was; in which sense it is probable Elihu understood him: and besides, these words are not to be taken separately, but in connection with what follows, which shows Job's sense, and how Elihu understood him, that though he was a righteous person, he had not justice done him:

and God hath taken away my judgment; which words he did say,

Job 7:20- :; or, as Mr. Broughton renders the words, "the Omnipotent keeps back my right"; does not vindicate my cause, nor so much as give it a hearing, nor lets me know why he contends with me; and, though I call for justice to be done, cannot be heard, Job 19:7; a like complaint of the church in Isaiah 40:27.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For Job hath said, I am righteous - see Job 13:18, “I know that I shall be justified;” compare Job 23:10-11, where he says, if he was tried he would come forth as gold. Elihu may have also referred to the general course of remark which he had pursued as vindicating himself.

And God hath taken away my judgment - This sentiment is found in Job 27:2; see the notes at that place.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 34:5. Job hath said, I am righteous — Job had certainly said the words attributed to him by Elihu, particularly in Job 27:2, c., but it was in vindication of his aspersed character that he had asserted his own righteousness, and in a different sense to that in which Elihu appears to take it up. He asserted that he was righteous quoad the charges his friends had brought against him. And he never intimated that he had at all times a pure heart, and had never transgressed the laws of his Maker. It is true also that he said, God hath taken away my judgment but he most obviously does not mean to charge God with injustice, but to show that he had dealt with him in a way wholly mysterious, and not according to the ordinary dispensations of his providence; and that he did not interpose in his behalf, while his friends were overwhelming him with obloquy and reproach.


 
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