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Zophar Rebukes Job

Job 11:4

In 11 translations

BSB
You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’
KJV
For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
WEB
For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’
ASV
For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in thine eyes.
LSV
And you say, My discourse [is] pure, || And I have been clean in Your eyes.
YLT
And thou sayest, 'Pure [is] my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'
DBY
For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
DRC
For thou hast said: My word is pure, and I am clean in thy sight.
GNV
For thou hast sayde, My doctrine is pure, and I am cleane in thine eyes.
JPS
And thou hast said: 'My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in Thine eyes.'
LXXE
For say not, I am pure in my works, and blameless before him.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַ֭תֹּאמֶר זַ֣ךְ לִקְחִ֑י וּ֝בַ֗ר הָיִ֥יתִי בְעֵינֶֽיךָ׃
LXX-Br
Μὴ γὰρ λέγε, ὅτι καθαρός εἰμι τοῖς ἔργοις καὶ ἄμεμπτος ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
  • Job 6:10It still brings me comfort, and joy through unrelenting pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
  • 1 Peter 3:15But in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you the reason for the hope that is in you. But respond with gentleness and respect,
  • Job 7:20If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?
  • Job 9:2–3“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God? If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
  • Job 35:2“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
  • Job 34:5–6For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice. Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
  • Job 6:29–30Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake. Is there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?
  • Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!

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