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King James Version

Job 35:4

I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

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

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
"I will answer you and all your friends, too.
English Revised Version
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
Update Bible Version
I will answer you, And your companions with you.
New Century Version
"I will answer you and your friends who are with you.
New English Translation
I will reply to you, and to your friends with you.
Webster's Bible Translation
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
World English Bible
I will answer you, And your companions with you.
Amplified Bible
"I will answer you, And your companions with you.
English Standard Version
I will answer you and your friends with you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Y schal answere to thi wordis, and to thi frendis with thee.
Berean Standard Bible
I will answer you and your friends with you.
Contemporary English Version
I will give the answers to you and your friends.
American Standard Version
I will answer thee, And thy companions with thee.
Bible in Basic English
I will make answer to you and to your friends:
Complete Jewish Bible
"Here is my answer to you, to you and to your friends:
Darby Translation
I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Job, I want to answer you and your friends here with you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will give thee answer, and thy companions with thee.
King James Version (1611)
I will answere thee, and thy companions with thee.
New Life Bible
I will answer you, and your friends with you.
New Revised Standard
I will answer you and your friends with you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore will I answere thee, & thy companions with thee.
George Lamsa Translation
I will answer you with words, you and your friends with you.
Good News Translation
I am going to answer you and your friends too.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I, will answer thee plainly, and thy friends with thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.
Revised Standard Version
I will answer you and your friends with you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therefore wyll I geue aunswere vnto thee, aud to thy companions with thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Look up to the sky and see; and consider the clouds, how high they are above thee.
Christian Standard Bible®
I will answer youand your friends with you.
Hebrew Names Version
I will answer you, And your companions with you.
Lexham English Bible
I myself will give answer to you and to your friends with you.
Literal Translation
I will answer your words, and your friends with you.
Young's Literal Translation
I return thee words, and thy friends with thee,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore will I geue answere vnto the & thy frendes:
THE MESSAGE
"Well, I'm going to show you that you don't know what you're talking about, neither you nor your friends. Look up at the sky. Take a long hard look. See those clouds towering above you? If you sin, what difference could that make to God? No matter how much you sin, will it matter to him? Even if you're good, what would God get out of that? Do you think he's dependent on your accomplishments? The only ones who care whether you're good or bad are your family and friends and neighbors. God's not dependent on your behavior.
New American Standard Bible
"I will answer you, And your friends with you.
New King James Version
"I will answer you, And your companions with you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will answer you, And your friends with you.
Legacy Standard Bible
I will respond to you,And your friends with you.

Contextual Overview

1 Elihu spake moreover, and said, 2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's? 3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? 4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. 5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou. 6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? 7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand? 8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

answer thee: Heb. return to thee words

thy: Job 34:8, Proverbs 13:20

Reciprocal: Job 32:17 - General Job 33:12 - I will

Cross-References

Genesis 35:2
Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
Genesis 35:4
And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
Genesis 35:24
The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
Genesis 35:25
And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
Genesis 35:26
And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
Genesis 35:27
And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
Exodus 32:20
And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
Deuteronomy 7:25
The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
Judges 9:6
And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. Meaning not his three friends, as the Septuagint version expresses it; for they were not on the side of Job, and of the same sentiment with him, but rather on the side of Elihu; especially Eliphaz, who expresses much the same sentiment he does, Job 22:2; but all that were of the same mind with Job, whether present or absent, or in whatsoever part of the world; the answer he should return to him would serve for them all, and sufficiently confute such a bad notion of God, let it be embraced by whomsoever.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will answer thee - Margin, “return to thee words.” Elihu meant to explain this more fully than it had been done by the friends of Job, and to show where Job was in error.

And thy companions with thee - Eliphaz, in Job 22:2, had taken up the same inquiry, and proposed to discuss the subject, but he had gone at once into severe charges against Job, and been drawn into language of harsh crimination, instead of making the matter clear, and Elihu now proposes to state just how it is, and to remove the objections of Job. It may be doubted, however, whether he was much more successful than Eliphaz had been. The doctrine of the future state, as it is revealed by Christianity, was needful to enable these speakers to comprehend and explain this subject.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 35:4. I will answer thee — I will show thee the evil of a sinful way, and the benefit of righteousness; and supply what thy friends have omitted in their discourses with thee.


 
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