Job 35:2

Job 35:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?
• New International Version (NIV)“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’
• English Standard Version (ESV)"Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right before God,'
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Do you think this is right? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

Context of Job 35:2

1Elihu continued speaking [to Job] and said, “Do you think this is according to [your] justice? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’? 3For you say, ‘What advantage have you [by living a righteous life]? What profit will I have, more [by being righteous] than if I had sinned?’ 4I will answer you, And your companions with you.

Job 35:2 word by word

הֲ֭זֹאת חָשַׁ֣בְתָּ לְמִשְׁפָּ֑ט אָ֝מַ֗רְתָּ צִדְקִ֥י מֵאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thinkestחָשַׁבchâshab · to devise: thinkH2803
• thou this to be rightמִשְׁפָּטmishpâţ · justiceH4941
• thou saidstאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• My righteousnessצֶ֫דֶקtsedeq · righteousnessH6664
• more than God’sאֵל'êl · GodH410

Cross-references for Job 35:2

• Matthew 12:36But I tell you, on the day of judgment people will have to give an accounting for every careless or useless word they speak.
• Luke 19:22He said to the servant, ‘I will judge and condemn you by your own words, you worthless servant! Did you [really] know that I was a stern man, picking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?
• Job 9:17For He bruises me with a tempest And multiplies my wounds without cause.
• Job 10:7Although You know that I am not guilty or wicked, Yet there is no one who can rescue me from Your hand.
• Job 16:17Although there is no violence or wrongdoing in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
• Job 19:6Know then that God has wronged me and overthrown me And has closed His net around me.
• Job 27:2“As God lives, who has taken away my right and denied me justice, And the Almighty, who has caused bitterness and grief for my soul,
• Job 34:5For Job has said, ‘I am righteous [and innocent], But God has taken away my right;
• Job 40:8Will you really annul My judgment and set it aside as void? Will you condemn Me [your God] that you may [appear to] be righteous and justified?

Commentaries on Job 35:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2My righteousness is more than God's? - This would indeed be a blasphemous saying; but Job never said so, neither directly nor constructively: it would be much better to translate the words מאל צדקי tsidki meel, I am righteous Before God. And Job's meaning most certainly was, "Whatever I am in your sight, I know that in the sight of God I am a righteous man;" and he had a right to assume this character, because God himself had given it to him.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Thinkest thou this to be right? - This is the point which Elihu now proposes to examine. He, therefore, solemnly appeals to Job himself to determine whether he could himself say that he thought such a sentiment correct. That thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God‘s - Job had nowhere said this in so many words, but Elihu regarded it as the substance of what he had said, or thought that what he had said amounted to the same thing. He had dwelt much…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-16Job 35:1-16. 2. more than--rather as in Job 9:2; 25:4: "I am righteous (literally, my righteousness is) before God." The English Version, however, agrees with Job 9:17; 16:12-17; 27:2-6. Job 4:17 is susceptible of either rendering. Elihu means Job said so, not in so many words, but virtually.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 35:2

• Man
• Self-Righteousness

In the dictionaries

• Advantage
• Elihu
• Heaven

Commentaries on Job 35

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary