New King James Version
Job 11:4
4For you have said, ‘My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in your eyes.’
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.
- New International Version (NIV)You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless and I am pure in your sight.’
- English Standard Version (ESV)For you say, 'My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's 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“Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be vindicated? 3Should your empty talk make men hold their peace? And when you mock, should no one rebuke you? For you have said, ‘My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in your eyes.’ 5But oh, that God would speak, And open His lips against you, 6That He would show you the secrets of wisdom! For they would double your prudence. Know therefore that God exacts from you Less than your iniquity deserves.
Read all of Job 11Job 11:4 word by word
וַ֭תֹּאמֶר זַ֣ךְ לִקְחִ֑י וּ֝בַ֗ר הָיִ֥יתִי בְעֵינֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 11:4
- Job 6:10Then I would still have comfort; Though in anguish I would exult, He will not spare; For I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
- Job 10:7Although You know that I am not wicked, And there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?
- 1 Peter 3:15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;
- Job 6:29Yield now, let there be no injustice! Yes, concede, my righteousness still stands!
- Job 7:20Have I sinned? What have I done to You, O watcher of men? Why have You set me as Your target, So that I am a burden to myself?
- Job 9:2“Truly I know it is so, But how can a man be righteous before God?
- Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!
- Job 34:5“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, But God has taken away my justice;
- Job 35:2“Do you think this is right? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?
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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