New Living Translation
Job 34:5
5For Job also said, ‘I am innocent, but God has taken away my rights.
Job 34:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
- New International Version (NIV)“Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God denies me justice.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
- New King James Version (NKJV)“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, But God has taken away my justice;
Context of Job 34:5
3Job said, ‘The ear tests the words it hears just as the mouth distinguishes between foods.’ 4So let us discern for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good. For Job also said, ‘I am innocent, but God has taken away my rights. 6I am innocent, but they call me a liar. My suffering is incurable, though I have not sinned.’ 7“Tell me, has there ever been a man like Job, with his thirst for irreverent talk?
Read all of Job 34Job 34:5 word by word
כִּֽי־אָ֭מַר אִיּ֣וֹב צָדַ֑קְתִּי וְ֝אֵ֗ל הֵסִ֥יר מִשְׁפָּטִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 34:5
- Job 10:7Although you know I am not guilty, no one can rescue me from your hands.
- Job 11:4You claim, ‘My beliefs are pure,’ and ‘I am clean in the sight of God.’
- Job 16:17Yet I have done no wrong, and my prayer is pure.
- Job 29:14Everything I did was honest. Righteousness covered me like a robe, and I wore justice like a turban.
- Job 32:1Job’s three friends refused to reply further to him because he kept insisting on his innocence.
- Job 33:9You said, ‘I am pure; I am without sin; I am innocent; I have no guilt.
- Job 9:17For he attacks me with a storm and repeatedly wounds me without cause.
- Job 27:2“I vow by the living God, who has taken away my rights, by the Almighty who has embittered my soul—
Commentaries on Job 34:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Job hath said, I am righteous - Job had certainly said the words attributed to him by Elihu, particularly in Job 27:2, etc., but it was in vindication of his aspersed character that he had asserted his own righteousness, and in a different sense to that in which Elihu appears to take it up. He asserted that he was righteous quoad the charges his friends had brought against him. And he never intimated that he had at all times a pure heart, and had never…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5For Job hath said, I am righteous - see Job 13:18, “I know that I shall be justified;” compare Job 23:10-11, where he says, if he was tried he would come forth as gold. Elihu may have also referred to the general course of remark which he had pursued as vindicating himself. And God hath taken away my judgment - This sentiment is found in Job 27:2; see the notes at that place.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-6Job said he was righteous: See 9:20–21; 13:18; 27:6.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. judgment--my right. Job's own words (Job 13:18; 27:2).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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