Christian Standard Bible
Job 35:2
2Do you think it is just when you say, “I am righteous before God”?
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
1Then Elihu continued, saying: Do you think it is just when you say, “I am righteous before God”? 3For you ask, “What does it profit you, and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?” 4I will answer you and your friends with you.
Read all of Job 35Job 35:2 word by word
הֲ֭זֹאת חָשַׁ֣בְתָּ לְמִשְׁפָּ֑ט אָ֝מַ֗רְתָּ צִדְקִ֥י מֵאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 35:2
- Matthew 12:36I tell you that on the day of judgment people will have to account for every careless word they speak.
- Luke 19:22“He told him, ‘I will condemn you by what you have said, you evil servant! If you knew I was a harsh man, collecting what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow,
- Job 9:17He batters me with a whirlwind and multiplies my wounds without cause.
- Job 10:7even though you know that I am not wicked and that there is no one who can rescue from your power?
- Job 16:17although my hands are free from violence and my prayer is pure.
- Job 19:6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and caught me in his net.
- Job 27:2As God lives, who has deprived me of justice, and the Almighty who has made me bitter,
- Job 34:5For Job has declared, “I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
- Job 40:8Would you really challenge my justice? Would you declare me guilty 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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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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