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Job 35:4
"Job, I want to answer you and your friends here with you.
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- HolmanParallel Translations
Christian Standard Bible®
I will answer youand your friends with you.
I will answer youand your friends with you.
Hebrew Names Version
I will answer you, And your companions with you.
I will answer you, And your companions with you.
King James Version
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
English Standard Version
I will answer you and your friends with you.
I will answer you and your friends with you.
New Century Version
"I will answer you and your friends who are with you.
"I will answer you and your friends who are with you.
New English Translation
I will reply to you, and to your friends with you.
I will reply to you, and to your friends with you.
Amplified Bible
"I will answer you, And your companions with you.
"I will answer you, And your companions with you.
New American Standard Bible
"I will answer you, And your friends with you.
"I will answer you, And your friends with you.
World English Bible
I will answer you, And your companions with you.
I will answer you, And your companions with you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore will I answere thee, & thy companions with thee.
Therefore will I answere thee, & thy companions with thee.
Legacy Standard Bible
I will respond to you,And your friends with you.
I will respond to you,And your friends with you.
Berean Standard Bible
I will answer you and your friends with you.
I will answer you and your friends with you.
Contemporary English Version
I will give the answers to you and your friends.
I will give the answers to you and your friends.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Here is my answer to you, to you and to your friends:
"Here is my answer to you, to you and to your friends:
Darby Translation
I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee.
I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee.
George Lamsa Translation
I will answer you with words, you and your friends with you.
I will answer you with words, you and your friends with you.
Good News Translation
I am going to answer you and your friends too.
I am going to answer you and your friends too.
Lexham English Bible
I myself will give answer to you and to your friends with you.
I myself will give answer to you and to your friends with you.
Literal Translation
I will answer your words, and your friends with you.
I will answer your words, and your friends with you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore will I geue answere vnto the & thy frendes:
Therfore will I geue answere vnto the & thy frendes:
American Standard Version
I will answer thee, And thy companions with thee.
I will answer thee, And thy companions with thee.
Bible in Basic English
I will make answer to you and to your friends:
I will make answer to you and to your friends:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will give thee answer, and thy companions with thee.
I will give thee answer, and thy companions with thee.
King James Version (1611)
I will answere thee, and thy companions with thee.
I will answere thee, and thy companions with thee.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therefore wyll I geue aunswere vnto thee, aud to thy companions with thee.
Therefore wyll I geue aunswere vnto thee, aud to thy companions with thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Look up to the sky and see; and consider the clouds, how high they are above thee.
Look up to the sky and see; and consider the clouds, how high they are above thee.
English Revised Version
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Y schal answere to thi wordis, and to thi frendis with thee.
Therfor Y schal answere to thi wordis, and to thi frendis with thee.
Update Bible Version
I will answer you, And your companions with you.
I will answer you, And your companions with you.
Webster's Bible Translation
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
New King James Version
"I will answer you, And your companions with you.
"I will answer you, And your companions with you.
New Living Translation
"I will answer you and all your friends, too.
"I will answer you and all your friends, too.
New Life Bible
I will answer you, and your friends with you.
I will answer you, and your friends with you.
New Revised Standard
I will answer you and your friends with you.
I will answer you and your friends with you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I, will answer thee plainly, and thy friends with thee.
I, will answer thee plainly, and thy friends with thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.
Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.
Revised Standard Version
I will answer you and your friends with you.
I will answer you and your friends with you.
Young's Literal Translation
I return thee words, and thy friends with thee,
I return thee words, and thy friends with thee,
THE MESSAGE
"Well, I'm going to show you that you don't know what you're talking about, neither you nor your friends. Look up at the sky. Take a long hard look. See those clouds towering above you? If you sin, what difference could that make to God? No matter how much you sin, will it matter to him? Even if you're good, what would God get out of that? Do you think he's dependent on your accomplishments? The only ones who care whether you're good or bad are your family and friends and neighbors. God's not dependent on your behavior.
"Well, I'm going to show you that you don't know what you're talking about, neither you nor your friends. Look up at the sky. Take a long hard look. See those clouds towering above you? If you sin, what difference could that make to God? No matter how much you sin, will it matter to him? Even if you're good, what would God get out of that? Do you think he's dependent on your accomplishments? The only ones who care whether you're good or bad are your family and friends and neighbors. God's not dependent on your behavior.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will answer you, And your friends with you.
"I will answer you, And your friends with you.
Contextual Overview
1 Elihu continued talking and said, 2 "Job, it is not fair for you to say, ‘I am more right than God,' 3 because you also ask him, ‘What's the use of trying to please you? What good will it do me if I don't sin?' 4 "Job, I want to answer you and your friends here with you. 5 Look up at the sky. Look at the clouds, which are so much higher than you. 6 If you sin, it does not hurt God. Even if your sins are too many to count, that does nothing to God. 7 And if you are good, that does not help God. He gets nothing from you. 8 Job, the good and bad things you do affect only other people like yourself.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
answer thee: Heb. return to thee words
thy: Job 34:8, Proverbs 13:20
Reciprocal: Job 32:17 - General Job 33:12 - I will
Cross-References
Genesis 35:2
So Jacob told his family and all the other people with him, "Destroy all these foreign gods that you have. Make yourselves pure. Put on clean clothes.
So Jacob told his family and all the other people with him, "Destroy all these foreign gods that you have. Make yourselves pure. Put on clean clothes.
Genesis 35:4
So the people gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had, and they gave him all the rings they were wearing in their ears. He buried everything under an oak tree near the town called Shechem.
So the people gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had, and they gave him all the rings they were wearing in their ears. He buried everything under an oak tree near the town called Shechem.
Genesis 35:24
His sons by Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
His sons by Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
Genesis 35:25
His sons by Bilhah, Rachel's maid, were Dan and Naphtali.
His sons by Bilhah, Rachel's maid, were Dan and Naphtali.
Genesis 35:26
His sons by Zilpah, Leah's maid, were Gad and Asher. These were Jacob's sons who were born in Paddan Aram.
His sons by Zilpah, Leah's maid, were Gad and Asher. These were Jacob's sons who were born in Paddan Aram.
Genesis 35:27
Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath Arba (Hebron). This is where Abraham and Isaac had lived.
Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath Arba (Hebron). This is where Abraham and Isaac had lived.
Exodus 32:20
Then Moses destroyed the calf that the people had made. He melted it in the fire. Then he ground the gold until it became dust and threw it into the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink that water.
Then Moses destroyed the calf that the people had made. He melted it in the fire. Then he ground the gold until it became dust and threw it into the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink that water.
Deuteronomy 7:5
"This is what you must do to those nations: You must smash their altars and break their memorial stones into pieces. Cut down their Asherah poles and burn their statues.
"This is what you must do to those nations: You must smash their altars and break their memorial stones into pieces. Cut down their Asherah poles and burn their statues.
Deuteronomy 7:25
"You must throw the statues of their gods into the fire and burn them. You must not want to keep the silver or the gold that is on those statues for yourselves. It will be like a trap to you—it will ruin your life. The Lord your God hates those idols.
"You must throw the statues of their gods into the fire and burn them. You must not want to keep the silver or the gold that is on those statues for yourselves. It will be like a trap to you—it will ruin your life. The Lord your God hates those idols.
Judges 9:6
Then all the leaders in Shechem and the house of Millo came together. Everyone gathered beside the big tree of the pillar in Shechem and made Abimelech their king.
Then all the leaders in Shechem and the house of Millo came together. Everyone gathered beside the big tree of the pillar in Shechem and made Abimelech their king.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. Meaning not his three friends, as the Septuagint version expresses it; for they were not on the side of Job, and of the same sentiment with him, but rather on the side of Elihu; especially Eliphaz, who expresses much the same sentiment he does, Job 22:2; but all that were of the same mind with Job, whether present or absent, or in whatsoever part of the world; the answer he should return to him would serve for them all, and sufficiently confute such a bad notion of God, let it be embraced by whomsoever.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I will answer thee - Margin, âreturn to thee words.â Elihu meant to explain this more fully than it had been done by the friends of Job, and to show where Job was in error.
And thy companions with thee - Eliphaz, in Job 22:2, had taken up the same inquiry, and proposed to discuss the subject, but he had gone at once into severe charges against Job, and been drawn into language of harsh crimination, instead of making the matter clear, and Elihu now proposes to state just how it is, and to remove the objections of Job. It may be doubted, however, whether he was much more successful than Eliphaz had been. The doctrine of the future state, as it is revealed by Christianity, was needful to enable these speakers to comprehend and explain this subject.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 35:4. I will answer thee — I will show thee the evil of a sinful way, and the benefit of righteousness; and supply what thy friends have omitted in their discourses with thee.
