New English Translation
Job 40:8
8Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?
Job 40:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
- New International Version (NIV)“Would you discredit my justice? Would you condemn me to justify yourself?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Would you indeed annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?
Context of Job 40:8
6Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind: 7“Get ready for a difficult task like a man. I will question you and you will inform me! Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right? 9Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s, and can you thunder with a voice like his? 10Adorn yourself, then, with majesty and excellency, and clothe yourself with glory and honor!
Read all of Job 40Job 40:8 word by word
הַ֭אַף תָּפֵ֣ר מִשְׁפָּטִ֑י תַּ֝רְשִׁיעֵ֗נִי לְמַ֣עַן תִּצְדָּֽק׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 40:8
- Psalms 51:4Against you – you above all – I have sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. So you are just when you confront me; you are right when you condemn me.
- Romans 3:4Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: “so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged.”
- Isaiah 14:27Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has a plan, and who can possibly frustrate it? His hand is ready to strike, and who can possibly stop it?
- Isaiah 28:18Your treaty with death will be dissolved; your agreement with Sheol will not last. When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by, you will be overrun by it.
- Galatians 3:15Brothers and sisters, I offer an example from everyday life: When a covenant has been ratified, even though it is only a human contract, no one can set it aside or add anything to it.
- Hebrews 7:18On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,
- Job 10:3Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?
- Job 27:2“As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter –
- Job 32:2Then Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry. He was angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God.
- 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 40:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Wilt thou condemn me - Rather than submit to be thought in the wrong, wilt thou condemn My conduct, in order to justify thyself? Some men will never acknowledge themselves in the wrong. "God may err, but we cannot," seems to be their impious maxim. Unwillingness to acknowledge a fault frequently leads men, directly or indirectly, to this sort of blasphemy. There are three words most difficult to be pronounced in all languages, - I Am Wrong.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Wilt thou disannul my judgment? - Wilt thou “reverse” the judgment which I have formed, and show that it should have been different from what it is? This was implied in what Job had undertaken. He had complained of the dealings of God, and this was the same as saying that he could show that those dealings should have been different from what they were. When a man complains against God, it is always implied that he supposes he could show why his dealings…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-14Verses 6-14 Those who profit by what they have heard from God, shall hear more from him. And those who are truly convinced of sin, yet need to be more thoroughly convinced and more humbled. No doubt God, and he only, has power to humble and bring down proud men; he has wisdom to know when and how to do it, and it is not for us to teach him how to govern the world. Our own hands cannot save us by recommending us to God's grace, much less rescuing us from…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8Job's words had angered Elihu (10:7; 27:2; 31:35–37; 32:2; 34:5). Now, God himself challenged Job's words.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. Wilt thou not only contend with, but set aside My judgment or justice in the government of the world? condemn--declare Me unrighteous, in order that thou mayest be accounted righteous (innocent; undeservingly afflicted).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 40
- 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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