the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Job 34:5
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For Job has declared, “I am righteous,yet God has deprived me of justice.
For Iyov has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
For Job has said, ‘I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
"Job says, ‘I am not guilty, and God has refused me a fair trial.
For Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.
"For Job has said, 'I am righteous [and innocent], But God has taken away my right;
"For Job has said, 'I am righteous, But God has taken away my right;
For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
For Iob hath saide, I am righteous, & God hath taken away my iudgement.
For Job has said, ‘I am righteous,But God has removed my justice;
For Job has declared, 'I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
Job claims he is innocent and God is guilty of mistreating him.
For Iyov says, ‘I am in the right, but God is denying me justice.
For Job hath said, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my judgment:
Job says, ‘I am innocent, and God is not being fair to me.
For Job has said, I am righteous; and God has turned aside my judgment.
Job claims that he is innocent, that God refuses to give him justice.
for Job has said, ‘I am righteous, but God has taken away my justice.
For Job has said, I am righteous; also, God has taken away my right;
And why? Iob hath sayde: I am rightuous, but God doth me wronge.
For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:
For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;
For Iob hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my iudgement.
[And why?] Iob hath sayd, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my iudgement.
For Job has said, I am righteous: the Lord has removed my judgment.
For Job hath said, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my right:
For Job seide, Y am iust, and God hath distried my doom.
For Job has said, I am righteous, And God has taken away my right:
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
"For Job has said, "I am righteous, But God has taken away my justice;
For Job also said, ‘I am innocent, but God has taken away my rights.
For Job has said, ‘I am right and good, but God has taken away my right.
For Job has said, ‘I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;
For Job hath said - I am righteous, But, GOD, hath turned away my right;
For Job hath said: I am just, and God hath overthrown my judgment.
For Job has said, 'I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;
For Job hath said, `I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,
"We've all heard Job say, ‘I'm in the right, but God won't give me a fair trial. When I defend myself, I'm called a liar to my face. I've done nothing wrong, and I get punished anyway.' Have you ever heard anything to beat this? Does nothing faze this man Job? Do you think he's spent too much time in bad company, hanging out with the wrong crowd, So that now he's parroting their line: ‘It doesn't pay to try to please God'?
"For Job has said, 'I am righteous, But God has taken away my right;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I: Job 10:7, Job 11:4, Job 16:17, Job 29:14, Job 32:1, Job 33:9
God: Job 9:17, Job 27:2
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 15:20 - Yea Job 8:3 - God Job 9:2 - how Job 10:3 - Is it good Job 15:6 - thine own Job 19:7 - no judgment Job 32:2 - because Job 33:10 - he findeth Job 35:2 - My Job 36:3 - ascribe Job 40:8 - wilt thou condemn Isaiah 40:27 - my judgment Ezekiel 18:25 - way Malachi 2:17 - Every Acts 8:33 - judgment
Cross-References
And he removed that day the he-goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the dark ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with guile, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
and said unto them: 'We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us.
Then Moses said unto Aaron: 'This is it that the LORD spoke, saying: Through them that are nigh unto Me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.' And Aaron held his peace.
But certain base fellows said: 'How shall this man save us?' And they despised him, and brought him no present. But he was as one that held his peace.
And Samuel said unto Jesse: 'Are here all thy children?' And he said: 'There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep.' And Samuel said unto Jesse: 'Send and fetch him; for we will not sit down till he come hither.'
Now David went to and fro from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.--
And Absalom spoke unto Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the base.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For Job hath said, I am righteous,.... Not in express words, but what amounted to it: no doubt he was a righteous man in an evangelic sense, being justified by the righteousness of Christ, as all the Old Testament saints were, who looked to him and believed in him as the Lord their righteousness, and said, as the church in those times did, "surely in the Lord have I righteousness and strength";
Isaiah 45:24. And moreover he was an upright man, to which the Lord himself bore testimony, Job 1:8; and had the truth of grace in him, that "new man which is created in righteousness and true holiness"; and also lived an holy life and conversation; but then he did not say or think that he was righteous in or of himself, or so as to be free from sin: Job could not judge or speak thus of himself, which would be contrary to what he expressly declares, Job 7:20; though it must be owned, that he thought himself so righteous, holy, and good, that he ought not to have been afflicted in the manner he was; in which sense it is probable Elihu understood him: and besides, these words are not to be taken separately, but in connection with what follows, which shows Job's sense, and how Elihu understood him, that though he was a righteous person, he had not justice done him:
and God hath taken away my judgment; which words he did say,
Job 7:20- :; or, as Mr. Broughton renders the words, "the Omnipotent keeps back my right"; does not vindicate my cause, nor so much as give it a hearing, nor lets me know why he contends with me; and, though I call for justice to be done, cannot be heard, Job 19:7; a like complaint of the church in Isaiah 40:27.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For Job hath said, I am righteous - see Job 13:18, âI know that I shall be justified;â compare Job 23:10-11, where he says, if he was tried he would come forth as gold. Elihu may have also referred to the general course of remark which he had pursued as vindicating himself.
And God hath taken away my judgment - This sentiment is found in Job 27:2; see the notes at that place.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 34:5. Job hath said, I am righteous — Job had certainly said the words attributed to him by Elihu, particularly in Job 27:2, c., but it was in vindication of his aspersed character that he had asserted his own righteousness, and in a different sense to that in which Elihu appears to take it up. He asserted that he was righteous quoad the charges his friends had brought against him. And he never intimated that he had at all times a pure heart, and had never transgressed the laws of his Maker. It is true also that he said, God hath taken away my judgment but he most obviously does not mean to charge God with injustice, but to show that he had dealt with him in a way wholly mysterious, and not according to the ordinary dispensations of his providence; and that he did not interpose in his behalf, while his friends were overwhelming him with obloquy and reproach.
