Berean Standard Bible
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
1And Elihu went on to say: “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’ 3For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’ 4I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
Read all of Job 35Job 35:2 word by word
הֲ֭זֹאת חָשַׁ֣בְתָּ לְמִשְׁפָּ֑ט אָ֝מַ֗רְתָּ צִדְקִ֥י מֵאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 35:2
- Matthew 12:36But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.
- Luke 19:22His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
- Job 9:17For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
- Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
- Job 16:17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
- Job 19:6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
- Job 27:2“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice— the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—
- Job 34:5For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
- Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
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
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Notes
- 1. Job 35:2 Or ‘I am righteous before God.’ ↩
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
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