English Standard Version
Job 34:5
5For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
Job 34:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
- New International Version (NIV)“Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God denies me justice.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, But God has taken away my justice;
- New Living Translation (NLT)For Job also said, ‘I am innocent, but God has taken away my rights.
Context of Job 34:5
3for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food. 4Let us choose what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good. For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right; 6in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.' 7What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
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כִּֽי־אָ֭מַר אִיּ֣וֹב צָדַ֑קְתִּי וְ֝אֵ֗ל הֵסִ֥יר מִשְׁפָּטִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 34:5
- Job 10:7although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
- Job 11:4For you say, 'My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes.'
- Job 16:17although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
- Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.
- Job 32:1So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
- Job 33:9You say, 'I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.
- Job 9:17For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;
- Job 27:2"As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
Commentaries on Job 34:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Job hath said, I am righteous - Job had certainly said the words attributed to him by Elihu, particularly in Job 27:2, etc., but it was in vindication of his aspersed character that he had asserted his own righteousness, and in a different sense to that in which Elihu appears to take it up. He asserted that he was righteous quoad the charges his friends had brought against him. And he never intimated that he had at all times a pure heart, and had never…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5For Job hath said, I am righteous - see Job 13:18, “I know that I shall be justified;” compare Job 23:10-11, where he says, if he was tried he would come forth as gold. Elihu may have also referred to the general course of remark which he had pursued as vindicating himself. And God hath taken away my judgment - This sentiment is found in Job 27:2; see the notes at that place.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-6Job said he was righteous: See 9:20–21; 13:18; 27:6.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. judgment--my right. Job's own words (Job 13:18; 27:2).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 34
- 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
- EGW Writings
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