Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just
Job 6:29
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
- KJV
- Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.in it: that is, in this matter
- WEB
- Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.
- ASV
- Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.
- LSV
- Please turn back, let it not be perverseness, || Indeed, turn back again—my righteousness [is] in it.
- YLT
- Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again — my righteousness [is] in it.
- DBY
- Return, I pray you, let there be no wrong; yea, return again, my righteousness shall be in it.
- DRC
- Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that which is just, judge ye.
- GNV
- Turne, I pray you, let there be none iniquitie: returne, I say, and ye shall see yet my righteousnesse in that behalfe. Is there iniquitie in my tongue? doeth not my mouth feele sorowes?
- JPS
- Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; yea, return again, my cause is righteous.
- LXXE
- Sit down now, and let there not be unrighteousness; and unite again with the just.
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- Written (Ketiv): וְשֻׁבִי (“and turn back”). Read aloud (Qere): וְשׁ֥וּבוּ (“and turn back”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads וְשֻׁ֥ביּ; read aloud (Qere) reads וְשׁ֥וּבוּ (“and turn back”).
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- שֻֽׁבוּ־נָ֭א אַל־תְּהִ֣י עַוְלָ֑ה ושבי ע֝וֹד צִדְקִי־בָֽהּ׃Read aloud as (qere): וְשׁ֥וּבוּWe read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.We read one or more consonants in L differently from BHS.
- LXX-Br
- Καθίσατε δὴ καὶ μὴ εἴη ἄδικον, καὶ πάλιν τῷ δικαίῳ συνέρχεσθε.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 17:10But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
- Job 42:6Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
- Job 27:4–6my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit. I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die. I will cling to my righteousness and never let go. As long as I…
- Malachi 3:18So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
- Job 23:10Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
- Job 34:5For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
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