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Elihu Confirms God’s Justice

Job 34:23

In 11 translations

BSB
For God need not examine a man further or have him approach for judgment.
KJV
For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.enter: Heb. go
WEB
For he doesn’t need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.
ASV
For he needeth not further to consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment.
LSV
For He does not permit man anymore, || To go to God in judgment,
YLT
For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment,
DBY
For he doth not long consider a man, to bring him before God in judgment.El
DRC
For it is no longer in the power of man to enter into judgment with God.
GNV
For he will not lay on man so much, that he should enter into iudgement with God.
JPS
For He doth not appoint a time unto any man, when he should go before God in judgment.
LXXE
For he will not lay upon a man more than right.

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Original-language editions

WLC
כִּ֤י לֹ֣א עַל־אִ֭ישׁ יָשִׂ֣ים ע֑וֹד לַהֲלֹ֥ךְ אֶל־אֵ֝֗ל בַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃
LXX-Br
Ὅτι οὐκ ἐπʼ ἄνδρα θήσει ἔτι.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Ezra 9:13After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this),
  • Psalms 119:137Righteous are You, O LORD, and upright are Your judgments.
  • Romans 9:20But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
  • Daniel 9:7–9To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our…
  • Job 16:21Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
  • Job 34:10–12Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly. For according to a man’s deeds He repays him; according to a man’s ways He brings consequences.…
  • Job 9:32–33For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court. Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.
  • Job 11:11Surely He knows the deceit of men. If He sees iniquity, does He not take note?
  • Jeremiah 2:5This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
  • Isaiah 42:3A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.
  • Job 11:6and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.
  • Job 23:7Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

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