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Geneva Bible

Job 35:4

Therefore will I answere thee, & thy companions with thee.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Guilt;   Job, the Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will answer youand your friends with you.
Hebrew Names Version
I will answer you, And your companions with you.
King James Version
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
English Standard Version
I will answer you and your friends with you.
New Century Version
"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.
Amplified Bible
"I will answer you, And your companions with you.
New American Standard Bible
"I will answer you, And your friends with you.
World English Bible
I will answer you, And your companions with you.
Legacy Standard Bible
I will respond to you,And your friends with you.
Berean Standard Bible
I will answer you and your friends with you.
Contemporary English Version
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:
Darby Translation
I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Job, I want to answer you and your friends here with you.
George Lamsa Translation
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.
Lexham English Bible
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore will I geue answere vnto the & thy frendes:
American Standard Version
I will answer thee, And thy companions with thee.
Bible in Basic English
I will make answer to you and to your friends:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will give thee answer, and thy companions with thee.
King James Version (1611)
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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
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.
Webster's Bible Translation
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
New King James Version
"I will answer you, And your companions with you.
New Living Translation
"I will answer you and all your friends, too.
New Life Bible
I will answer you, and your friends with you.
New Revised Standard
I will answer you and your friends with you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I, will answer thee plainly, and thy friends with thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.
Revised Standard Version
I will answer you and your friends with you.
Young's Literal Translation
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will answer you, And your friends with you.

Contextual Overview

1 Elihu spake moreouer, and said, 2 Thinkest thou this right, that thou hast said, I am more righteous then God? 3 For thou hast said, What profiteth it thee and what auaileth it me, to purge me fro my sinne? 4 Therefore will I answere thee, & thy companions with thee. 5 Looke vnto the heauen, and see and behold the cloudes which are hyer then thou. 6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him, yea, when thy sinnes be many, what doest thou vnto him? 7 If thou be righteous, what giuest thou vnto him? or what receiueth he at thine hand? 8 Thy wickednesse may hurt a man as thou art: and thy righteousnes may profite ye sonne of man.

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
Then saide Iaakob vnto his houshold and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and clense your selues, and change your garments:
Genesis 35:4
And they gaue vnto Iaakob all the strange gods, which were in their hands, and all their earings which were in their eares, and Iaakob hidde them vnder an oke, which was by Shechem.
Genesis 35:24
The sonnes of Rahel: Ioseph & Beniamin.
Genesis 35:25
And the sonnes of Bilhah Rahels maide: Dan and Naphtali.
Genesis 35:26
And the sonnes of Zilpah Leahs maide: Gad and Asher. These are the sonnes of Iaakob, which were borne him in Padan Aram.
Genesis 35:27
Then Iaakob came vnto Izhak his father to Mamre a citie of Arbah: this is Hebron, where Abraham and Izhak were strangers.
Exodus 32:20
After, he tooke the calfe, which they had made, and burned it in the fire, and ground it vnto powder, and strowed it vpon the water, & made the children of Israel drinke of it.
Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus ye shal deale with them, Ye shal ouerthrowe their altars, and breake downe their pillars, and ye shall cut downe their groues, and burne their grauen images with fire.
Deuteronomy 7:25
The grauen images of their gods shall ye burne with fire, and couet not the siluer and golde, that is on them, nor take it vnto thee, least thou be snared therewith: for it is an abomination before the Lord thy God.
Judges 9:6
And all the men of Shechem gathered together with all the house of Millo, and came & made Abimelech King in the playne, where the stone was erected in Shechem.

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, “return to thee words.” 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.


 
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