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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 Job hath said: 'I am righteous, and God hath 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 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
But that very day Laban went out and removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, all the female goats that were speckled and spotted or had white patches, and all the black sheep. He placed them in the care of his own sons,
But since Shechem had defiled their sister, Dinah, Jacob's sons responded deceitfully to Shechem and his father, Hamor.
They said to them, "We couldn't possibly allow this, because you're not circumcised. It would be a disgrace for our sister to marry a man like you!
Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the Lord meant when he said, ‘I will display my holiness through those who come near me. I will display my glory before all the people.'" And Aaron was silent.
But there were some scoundrels who complained, "How can this man save us?" And they scorned him and refused to bring him gifts. But Saul ignored them. [Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had been grievously oppressing the people of Gad and Reuben who lived east of the Jordan River. He gouged out the right eye of each of the Israelites living there, and he didn't allow anyone to come and rescue them. In fact, of all the Israelites east of the Jordan, there wasn't a single one whose right eye Nahash had not gouged out. But there were 7,000 men who had escaped from the Ammonites, and they had settled in Jabesh-gilead.]
Then Samuel asked, "Are these all the sons you have?" "There is still the youngest," Jesse replied. "But he's out in the fields watching the sheep and goats." "Send for him at once," Samuel said. "We will not sit down to eat until he arrives."
but David went back and forth so he could help his father with the sheep in Bethlehem.
And though Absalom never spoke to Amnon about this, he hated Amnon deeply because of what he had done to his sister.
I am silent before you; I won't say a word, for my punishment is from you.
"Meanwhile, the older son was in the fields working. When he returned home, he heard music and dancing in the house,
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.
