Tree of Life Version
Job 11:4
4For you have said, ‘My teaching is flawless’ and ‘I am pure in Your eyes!’
Job 11:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
- New International Version (NIV)You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless and I am pure in your sight.’
- English Standard Version (ESV)For you say, 'My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes.'
- New King James Version (NKJV)For you have said, ‘My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in your eyes.’
Context of Job 11:4
2“Should so many words go unanswered? Is a man justified by his lips? 3Will your idle talk silence men and will no one rebuke you when you mock? For you have said, ‘My teaching is flawless’ and ‘I am pure in Your eyes!’ 5But if only God would speak and open His lips against you, 6and show you the secrets of wisdom— for sound wisdom has two sides. Know that God has forgotten some of your iniquity.
Read all of Job 11Job 11:4 word by word
וַ֭תֹּאמֶר זַ֣ךְ לִקְחִ֑י וּ֝בַ֗ר הָיִ֥יתִי בְעֵינֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 11:4
- Job 6:10Then I would still be comforted, even rejoice in spite of unrelenting pain, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
- Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, yet there is no one to deliver from Your hand?
- 1 Peter 3:15Instead sanctify Messiah as Lord in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you,
- Job 6:29Relent, do not be unjust; reconsider, for my righteousness is in it.
- Job 7:20Have I sinned— what have I done to You, O watcher of men? Why have You set me as Your target? Have I become a burden to You?
- Job 9:2“Truly I know it is so, but how can one be righteous before God?
- Job 14:4Who can make something pure out of the impure? No one!
- Job 34:5“For Job says, ‘I am righteous, but God has deprived me of justice.
- Job 35:2“Do you think this is just? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is greater than God’s?’
Commentaries on Job 11:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4My doctrine is pure - לקחי likchi, "my assumptions." What I assume or take as right, and just, and true, are so; the precepts which I have formed, and the practice which I have founded on them, are all correct and perfect. Job had not exactly said, My doctrine and way of life are pure, and I am clean in thine eyes; but he had vindicated himself from their charges of secret sins and hypocrisy, and appealed to God for his general uprightness and sincerity…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4My doctrine is pure - The Septuagint instead of the word “doctrine” here reads “deeds,” ̓́ ergois the Syriac, “thou sayest I have acted justly.” But the word used here (לקח leqach ) means properly “fair speech” or “taking arguments,” that by which one is “taken” or captivated, from לקח lâqach “to take.” Then it means doctrine, or instruction, Proverbs 1:5; Proverbs 9:9. Here it means the views which Job had expressed. Dr. Good supposes that it means…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4My doctrine is sound: Job was not defining doctrine but was defending his own integrity.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. doctrine--purposely used of Job's speeches, which sounded like lessons of doctrine (De 32:2; Pr 4:2). thine--addressed to God. Job had maintained his sincerity against his friends suspicions, not faultlessness.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 11
- 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
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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