Job 35:2

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 King James Version (NKJV)“Do you think this is right? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

Context of Job 35:2

1Then Elihu said: “Do you think it is right for you to claim, ‘I am righteous before God’? 3For you also ask, ‘What’s in it for me? What’s the use of living a righteous life?’ 4“I will answer you and all your friends, too.

Job 35:2 word by word

הֲ֭זֹאת חָשַׁ֣בְתָּ לְמִשְׁפָּ֑ט אָ֝מַ֗רְתָּ צִדְקִ֥י מֵאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thinkestחָשַׁבchâshab · to devise: thinkH2803
• thou this to be rightמִשְׁפָּטmishpâţ · justiceH4941
• thou saidstאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• My righteousnessצֶ֫דֶקtsedeq · righteousnessH6664
• more than God’sאֵל'êl · GodH410

Cross-references for Job 35:2

• Matthew 12:36And I tell you this, you must give an account on judgment day for every idle word you speak.
• Luke 19:22“‘You wicked servant!’ the king roared. ‘Your own words condemn you. If you knew that I’m a hard man who takes what isn’t mine and harvests crops I didn’t plant,
• Job 9:17For he attacks me with a storm and repeatedly wounds me without cause.
• Job 10:7Although you know I am not guilty, no one can rescue me from your hands.
• Job 16:17Yet I have done no wrong, and my prayer is pure.
• Job 19:6But it is God who has wronged me, capturing me in his net.
• Job 27:2“I vow by the living God, who has taken away my rights, by the Almighty who has embittered my soul—
• Job 34:5For Job also said, ‘I am innocent, but God has taken away my rights.
• Job 40:8“Will you discredit my justice and condemn me just to prove you are right?

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

Topics related to Job 35:2

• Man
• Self-Righteousness

In the dictionaries

• Advantage
• Elihu
• Heaven

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