New International Version
Job 11:4
4You say to God, ‘My beliefs are 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.
- 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.’
- New Living Translation (NLT)You claim, ‘My beliefs are pure,’ and ‘I am clean in the sight of God.’
Context of Job 11:4
2“Are all these words to go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindicated? 3Will your idle talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock? You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless and I am pure in your sight.’ 5Oh, how I wish that God would speak, that he would open his lips against you 6and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.
Read all of Job 11Job 11:4 word by word
וַ֭תֹּאמֶר זַ֣ךְ לִקְחִ֑י וּ֝בַ֗ר הָיִ֥יתִי בְעֵינֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 11:4
- Job 6:10Then I would still have this consolation— my joy in unrelenting pain— that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.
- Job 10:7though you know that I am not guilty and that no one can rescue me from your hand?
- 1 Peter 3:15But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,
- Job 6:29Relent, do not be unjust; reconsider, for my integrity is at stake.
- Job 7:20If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?
- Job 9:2“Indeed, I know that this is true. But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?
- Job 14:4Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!
- Job 34:5“Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God denies me justice.
- Job 35:2“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not 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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