New King James Version
Job 35:2
2“Do you think this is right? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?
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?
- New International Version (NIV)“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right before God,'
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Do you think it is right for you to claim, ‘I am righteous before God’?
Context of Job 35:2
1Moreover Elihu answered and said: “Do you think this is right? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’? 3For you say, ‘What advantage will it be to You? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?’ 4“I will answer you, And your companions 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 say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
- Luke 19:22And he said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was an austere man, collecting what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow.
- Job 9:17For He crushes me with a tempest, And multiplies my wounds without cause.
- Job 10:7Although You know that I am not wicked, And there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?
- Job 16:17Although no violence is in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
- Job 19:6Know then that God has wronged me, And has surrounded me with His net.
- Job 27:2“As God lives, who has taken away my justice, And the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
- Job 34:5“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, But God has taken away my justice;
- Job 40:8“Would you indeed annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?
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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