Job 35:2

In 11 translations

BSB

“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’Or ‘I am righteous before God.’

KJV

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?

WEB

“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

ASV

Thinkest thou this to be thy right, Or sayest thou, My righteousness is more than God’s,

LSV

“Have you reckoned this for judgment [when] you have said, || My righteousness [is] more than God’s?

YLT

This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said — 'My righteousness [is] more than God's?'

DBY

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?El

DRC

Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am more just than God?

GNV

Thinkest thou this right, that thou hast said, I am more righteous then God?

JPS

Thinkest thou this to be thy right, or sayest thou: 'I am righteousness before God',

LXXE

What is this that thou thinkest to be according to right? who art thou that thou hast said, I am righteous before the Lord?

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Original-language editions

WLC

הֲ֭זֹאת חָשַׁ֣בְתָּ לְמִשְׁפָּ֑ט אָ֝מַ֗רְתָּ צִדְקִ֥י מֵאֵֽל׃

LXX-Br

Τί τοῦτο ἡγήσω ἐν κρίσει; σὺ τίς εἶ, ὅτι εἶπας, δίκαιός εἰμι ἔναντι Κυρίου;

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• Matthew 12:36–37But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
• Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
• Job 19:6–7then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me. Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
• Job 9:17For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
• Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
• Job 16:17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
• Luke 19:22His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
• Job 27:2–6“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice— the Almighty, who has embittered my soul— as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils, my lips will not speak…
• Job 34:5For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.

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