New English Translation
Job 11:4
4For you have said, ‘My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.’
Job 11:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
- New International Version (NIV)You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless and I am pure in your sight.’
- English Standard Version (ESV)For you say, 'My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes.'
- New King James Version (NKJV)For you have said, ‘My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in your eyes.’
Context of Job 11:4
2“Should not this abundance of words be answered, or should this talkative man be vindicated? 3Will your idle talk reduce people to silence, and will no one rebuke you when you mock? For you have said, ‘My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.’ 5But if only God would speak, if only he would open his lips against you, 6and reveal to you the secrets of wisdom – for true wisdom has two sides – so that you would know that God has forgiven some of your sins.
Read all of Job 11Job 11:4 word by word
וַ֭תֹּאמֶר זַ֣ךְ לִקְחִ֑י וּ֝בַ֗ר הָיִ֥יתִי בְעֵינֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 11:4
- Job 6:10Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
- Job 10:7although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?
- 1 Peter 3:15But set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess.
- Job 6:29Relent, let there be no falsehood; reconsider, for my righteousness is intact!
- Job 7:20If I have sinned – what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?
- Job 9:2“Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?
- Job 14:4Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
- Job 34:5For Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.
- Job 35:2“Do you think this to be just: when you say, ‘My right before God.’
Commentaries on Job 11:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4My doctrine is pure - לקחי likchi, "my assumptions." What I assume or take as right, and just, and true, are so; the precepts which I have formed, and the practice which I have founded on them, are all correct and perfect. Job had not exactly said, My doctrine and way of life are pure, and I am clean in thine eyes; but he had vindicated himself from their charges of secret sins and hypocrisy, and appealed to God for his general uprightness and sincerity…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4My doctrine is pure - The Septuagint instead of the word “doctrine” here reads “deeds,” ̓́ ergois the Syriac, “thou sayest I have acted justly.” But the word used here (לקח leqach ) means properly “fair speech” or “taking arguments,” that by which one is “taken” or captivated, from לקח lâqach “to take.” Then it means doctrine, or instruction, Proverbs 1:5; Proverbs 9:9. Here it means the views which Job had expressed. Dr. Good supposes that it means…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4My doctrine is sound: Job was not defining doctrine but was defending his own integrity.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. doctrine--purposely used of Job's speeches, which sounded like lessons of doctrine (De 32:2; Pr 4:2). thine--addressed to God. Job had maintained his sincerity against his friends suspicions, not faultlessness.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 11
- 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
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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