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Elihu Confirms God’s Justice

Job 34:5

In 11 translations

BSB
For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
KJV
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
WEB
For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right.
ASV
For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:
LSV
For Job has said, I have been righteous, || And God has turned aside my right,
YLT
For Job hath said, 'I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,
DBY
For Job hath said, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my judgment:El
DRC
For Job hath said: I am just, and God hath overthrown my judgment.
GNV
For Iob hath saide, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my iudgement.
JPS
For Job hath said: 'I am righteous, and God hath taken away my right;
LXXE
For Job has said, I am righteous: the Lord has removed my judgment.

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Original-language editions

WLC
כִּֽי־אָ֭מַר אִיּ֣וֹב צָדַ֑קְתִּי וְ֝אֵ֗ל הֵסִ֥יר מִשְׁפָּטִֽי׃
LXX-Br
Ὅτι εἴρηκεν Ἰὼβ, δίκαιός εἰμι· ὁ Κύριος ἀπήλλαξέ μου τὸ κρίμα.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 27:2“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice— the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—
  • Job 33:9‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
  • Job 32:1So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
  • Job 16:17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
  • Job 9:17For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
  • Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
  • Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.
  • Job 11:4You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’

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