Job 34:35

King James Version

Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
‘Job speaks out of ignorance; his words lack insight.'

English Revised Version
Job speaketh without knowledge, and his words are without wisdom.

Update Bible Version
Job speaks without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom.

New Century Version
‘Job speaks without knowing what is true; his words show he does not understand.'

New English Translation
that Job speaks without knowledge and his words are without understanding.

Webster's Bible Translation
Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words [were] without wisdom.

World English Bible
'Job speaks without knowledge, His words are without wisdom.'

Amplified Bible
'Job speaks without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom and insight.

English Standard Version
‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight.'

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Joob spak folili, and hise wordis sownen not techyng.

Berean Standard Bible
'Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.'

Contemporary English Version
that you are speaking nonsense and lack good judgment.

American Standard Version
Job speaketh without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom.

Bible in Basic English
Job's words do not come from knowledge; they are not the fruit of wisdom.

Complete Jewish Bible
‘Iyov is speaking without thinking; his words lack discernment.'

Darby Translation
Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were not with intelligence.

Easy-to-Read Version
‘Job talks like an ignorant person. What he says doesn't make sense!'

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Job speaketh without knowledge, and his words are without discernment.'

King James Version (1611)
Iob hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdome.

New Life Bible
‘Job speaks without much learning. His words are without wisdom.

New Revised Standard
‘Job speaks without knowledge, his words are without insight.'

Geneva Bible (1587)
Iob hath not spoken of knowledge, neyther were his wordes according to wisedome.

George Lamsa Translation
Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words are without understanding.

Good News Translation
that Job is speaking from ignorance and that nothing he says makes sense.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Job, without knowledge, doth speak, and, his words, are not with discretion.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But Job hath spoken foolishly, and his words sound not discipline.

Revised Standard Version
'Job speaks without knowledge, his words are without insight.'

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iob hath not spoken of knowledge, neither were his wordes according to wysdome.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But Job has not spoken with understanding, his words are not uttered with knowledge.

Christian Standard Bible®
“Job speaks without knowledge;his words are without insight.”

Hebrew Names Version
'Iyov speaks without knowledge, His words are without wisdom.'

Lexham English Bible
‘Job speaks without knowledge, and his words are without insight.

Literal Translation
Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words are not with insight.

Young's Literal Translation
Job -- not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words [are] not with wisdom.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for Iob he hath nether spoken to the purpose ner wysely.

New American Standard Bible
'Job speaks without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom.

New King James Version
"Job speaks without knowledge, His words are without wisdom.'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Job speaks without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom.

Legacy Standard Bible
‘Job speaks without knowledge,And his words are without insight.

Contextual Overview

³¹ Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: ³² That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more. ³³ Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest. ³⁴ Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me. ³⁵ Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom. ³⁶ My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men. ³⁷ For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 13:2, Job 15:2, Job 35:16, Job 38:2, Job 42:3

Reciprocal: Job 9:20 - mine

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Job hath spoken without knowledge,.... Not that Job was an ignorant man, either in things natural or divine; but in this point, about the chastening hand of God upon him, he had said some things which betrayed lack of knowledge, as in Job 34:5;

and his words [were] without wisdom; Job was not destitute of human wisdom, nor of spiritual wisdom, but no man is wise at all times; some things had dropped from him which savoured of folly and ignorance, and which he afterwards was convinced of, and confessed with shame,

Job 40:4; being charged by the Lord himself with what he is here by Elihu, Job 38:2; and it may be observed, that Elihu does not charge Job with being a wicked man, as his three friends did, but as having spoken unadvisedly with lips, under his chastening circumstances, and which he labours to convince him of.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let men of understanding - Margin, as in Hebrew “heart.” The “heart,” as there has been frequent occasions to remark, in the Scriptures is often used to denote the seat of the mind or soul, as the head is with us. Rosenmuller, Umbreit, and Noyes, render this passage as if it were to be taken in connection with the following verse, “Men of understanding will say, and a wise man who hears my views will unite in saying, ‘Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words are without wisdom.’” According to this, the two verses express a sentiment in which Elihu supposes every wise man who had attended to him would concur, that what Job had said was not founded in knowledge or on true wisdom.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 34:35. Job hath spoken without knowledge — There is no good in arguing with a self-willed, self-conceited man. Job has spoken like a man destitute of wisdom and discretion.