New English Translation
Job 35:2
2“Do you think this to be just: when you say, ‘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.’
- 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 answered: “Do you think this to be just: when you say, ‘My right before God.’ 3But you say, ‘What will it profit you,’ and, ‘What do I gain by not sinning?’ 4I will reply to you, and to 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 that on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every worthless word they speak.
- Luke 19:22The king said to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow?
- Job 9:17he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.
- Job 10:7although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can 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 wronged me and encircled me with his net.
- Job 27:2“As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter –
- Job 34:5For Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.
- Job 40:8Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be 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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