New English Translation
Job 34:5
5For Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God turns 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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
- New King James Version (NKJV)“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, But God has taken away my justice;
Context of Job 34:5
3For the ear assesses words as the mouth tastes food. 4Let us evaluate for ourselves what is right; let us come to know among ourselves what is good. For Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right. 6Concerning my right, should I lie? My wound is incurable, although I am without transgression.’ 7What man is like Job, who drinks derision 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 that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?
- Job 11:4For you have said, ‘My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.’
- 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 just dealing was like a robe and a turban;
- Job 32:1So these three men refused to answer Job further, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
- Job 33:9‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.
- Job 9:17he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.
- Job 27:2“As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life 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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