Elihu Describes God’s Power
Job 36:3
In 11 translations
- BSB
- I get my knowledge from afar, and I will ascribe justice to my Maker.
- KJV
- I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
- WEB
- I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
- ASV
- I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
- LSV
- I lift up my knowledge from afar, || And I ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
- YLT
- I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.
- DBY
- I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Creator.
- DRC
- I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove my Maker just.
- GNV
- I will fetche my knowledge afarre off, and will attribute righteousnes vnto my Maker.
- JPS
- I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
- LXXE
- Having fetched my knowledge from afar, and according to my works,
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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Ben Chaim’s Second Rabbinic Bible reads וְ֝לְפֹעֲלִ֗י; Leningrad Codex and Aleppo Codex and Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia reads וּ֝לְפֹעֲלִ֗י (“and to maker my”).
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אֶשָּׂ֣א דֵ֭עִי לְמֵרָח֑וֹק וּ֝לְפֹעֲלִ֗י אֶֽתֵּֽן־צֶֽדֶק׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἀναλαβὼν τὴν ἐπιστήμην μου μακράν, ἔργοις δέ μου δίκαια ἐρῶ ἐπʼ ἀληθείας,
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Cross-references most cited first
- James 3:17But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.
- James 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
- Psalms 145:17The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.
- Daniel 9:14Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.
- Daniel 9:7To 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…
- Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.
- Revelation 15:3and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!
- Psalms 11:7For the LORD is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.
- Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
- Job 32:8But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.
- Romans 9:14What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!
- Acts 8:27–40So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship, and on his return was sitting in…
- Job 32:2This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,
- Matthew 12:42The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.
- Job 28:12–13But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell? No man can know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.
- Job 34:5For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
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