New International Version
Job 35:2
2“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not 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?
- 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’?
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Do you think it is right for you to claim, ‘I am righteous before God’?
Context of Job 35:2
1Then Elihu said: “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’ 3Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?’ 4“I would like to 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 12:36But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.
- Luke 19:22“His master replied, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant! You knew, did you, that I am a hard man, taking out what I did not put in, and reaping what I did not sow?
- Job 9:17He would crush me with a storm and multiply my wounds for no reason.
- Job 10:7though you know that I am not guilty and that no one can rescue me from your hand?
- Job 16:17yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.
- Job 19:6then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.
- Job 27:2“As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter,
- Job 34:5“Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God denies me justice.
- Job 40:8“Would you discredit my justice? Would you condemn me to justify yourself?
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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