English Standard Version
Job 35:2
2"Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right 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.’
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Do you think this is right? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Do you think it is right for you to claim, ‘I am righteous before God’?
Context of Job 35:2
1And Elihu answered and said: "Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right before God,' 3that you ask, 'What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?' 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
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 35:2
- Matthew 12:36I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,
- Luke 19:22He said to him, 'I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
- Job 9:17For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;
- Job 10:7although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
- Job 16:17although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
- Job 19:6know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me.
- Job 27:2"As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
- Job 34:5For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
- Job 40:8Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
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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