New Living Translation
Job 34:23
23We don’t set the time when we will come before God in judgment.
Job 34:23 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
- New International Version (NIV)God has no need to examine people further, that they should come before him for judgment.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For God has no need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For He need not further consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment.
Context of Job 34:23
21“For God watches how people live; he sees everything they do. 22No darkness is thick enough to hide the wicked from his eyes. We don’t set the time when we will come before God in judgment. 24He brings the mighty to ruin without asking anyone, and he sets up others in their place. 25He knows what they do, and in the night he overturns and destroys them.
Read all of Job 34Job 34:23 word by word
כִּ֤י לֹ֣א עַל־אִ֭ישׁ יָשִׂ֣ים ע֑וֹד לַהֲלֹ֥ךְ אֶל־אֵ֝֗ל בַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 34:23
- Job 34:10“Listen to me, you who have understanding. Everyone knows that God doesn’t sin! The Almighty can do no wrong.
- Job 11:6If only he would tell you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom is not a simple matter. Listen! God is doubtless punishing you far less than you deserve!
- Ezra 9:13“Now we are being punished because of our wickedness and our great guilt. But we have actually been punished far less than we deserve, for you, our God, have allowed some of us to survive as a remnant.
- Psalms 119:137O Lord, you are righteous, and your regulations are fair.
- Isaiah 42:3He will not crush the weakest reed or put out a flickering candle. He will bring justice to all who have been wronged.
- Daniel 9:7“Lord, you are in the right; but as you see, our faces are covered with shame. This is true of all of us, including the people of Judah and Jerusalem and all Israel, scattered near and far, wherever you have driven us because of our disloyalty to you.
- Job 9:32“God is not a mortal like me, so I cannot argue with him or take him to trial.
- Job 16:21I need someone to mediate between God and me, as a person mediates between friends.
- Job 23:7Honest people can reason with him, so I would be forever acquitted by my judge.
- Jeremiah 2:5This is what the Lord says: “What did your ancestors find wrong with me that led them to stray so far from me? They worshiped worthless idols, only to become worthless themselves.
- Romans 9:20No, don’t say that. Who are you, a mere human being, to argue with God? Should the thing that was created say to the one who created it, “Why have you made me like this?”
Commentaries on Job 34:23
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 23For he will not lay upon man - The meaning appears to be this: He will not call man a second time into judgment; he does not try a cause twice; his decisions are just, and his sentence without appeal. Mr. Good translates: - "Behold, not to man hath he intrusted the time Of coming into judgment with God." Man's time is not in his own hand; nor is his lot cast or ruled by his own wisdom and power. When God thinks best, he will judge for him; and, if…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 23For he will not lay upon man more than right - Very various translations have been given of this verse. According to our common version, it means that God will not deal with man in such a manner as to give him just reason for calling in question the rectitude of the divine dealings. He shall in no case receive more than his sins deserve, so as to give him cause for complaint. This is undoubtedly a correct sentiment; but it may be doubted whether it is the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16-30Verses 16-30 Elihu appeals directly to Job himself. Could he suppose that God was like those earthly princes, who hate right, who are unfit to rule, and prove the scourges of mankind? It is daring presumption to condemn God's proceedings, as Job had done by his discontents. Elihu suggests divers considerations to Job, to produce in him high thoughts of God, and so to persuade him to submit. Job had often wished to plead his cause before God. Elihu asks…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 23God need not examine a man further: Elihu said this to disagree with Job's wish for God to quickly announce a time of judgment (21:19; 24:1). Elihu believed that God already understood all people perfectly without needing to set up a special court or investigation.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2323. (1Co 10:13; La 3:32; Is 27:8). Better, as Umbreit, "He does not (needs not to) regard (as in Job 34:14; Is 41:20) man long (so Hebrew, Ge 46:29) in order that he may go (be brought by God) into judgment." Literally, "lest his (attention) upon men" (Job 11:10, 11). So Job 34:24, "without number" ought to be translated, "without [needing any] searching out," such as has to be made in human judgments.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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