New King James Version
Job 34:35
35‘Job speaks without knowledge, His words are without wisdom.’
Job 34:35 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
- New International Version (NIV)‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.’
- English Standard Version (ESV)'Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight.'
- New Living Translation (NLT)‘Job speaks out of ignorance; his words lack insight.’
Context of Job 34:35
33Should He repay it according to your terms, Just because you disavow it? You must choose, and not I; Therefore speak what you know. 34“Men of understanding say to me, Wise men who listen to me: ‘Job speaks without knowledge, His words are without wisdom.’ 36Oh, that Job were tried to the utmost, Because his answers are like those of wicked men! 37For he adds rebellion to his sin; He claps his hands among us, And multiplies his words against God.”
Read all of Job 34Job 34:35 word by word
אִ֭יּוֹב לֹא־בְדַ֣עַת יְדַבֵּ֑ר וּ֝דְבָרָ֗יו לֹ֣א בְהַשְׂכֵּֽיל׃Read the interlinear
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People and places in Job 34:35
Cross-references for Job 34:35
- Job 13:2What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
- Job 15:2“Should a wise man answer with empty knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?
- Job 35:16Therefore Job opens his mouth in vain; He multiplies words without knowledge.”
- Job 38:2“Who is this who darkens counsel By words without knowledge?
- Job 42:3You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Commentaries on Job 34:35
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 35Job hath spoken without knowledge - There is no good in arguing with a self-willed, self-conceited man. Job has spoken like a man destitute of wisdom and discretion.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 31-37Verses 31-37 When we reprove for what is amiss, we must direct to what is good. Job's friends would have had him own himself a wicked man. Let will only oblige him to own that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. Let us, in giving reproof, not make a matter worse than it is. Elihu directs Job to humble himself before God for his sins, and to accept the punishment. Also to pray to God to discover his sins to him. A good man is willing to know the worst of…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 34-3534-35. Rather, "men ... will say to me, and the wise man (Job 34:2, 10) who hearkens to me (will say), 'Job hath spoken,'" &c.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 34
- 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
- EGW Writings
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