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Job 35:4
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I will answer youand your friends with you.
I will answer you, And your companions with you.
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
I will answer you and your friends with you.
"I will answer you and your friends who are with you.
I will reply to you, and to your friends with you.
"I will answer you, And your companions with you.
"I will answer you, And your friends with you.
I will answer you, And your companions with you.
Therefore will I answere thee, & thy companions with thee.
I will respond to you,And your friends with you.
I will answer you and your friends with you.
I will give the answers to you and your friends.
"Here is my answer to you, to you and to your friends:
I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee.
"Job, I want to answer you and your friends here with you.
I will answer you with words, you and your friends with you.
I am going to answer you and your friends too.
I myself will give answer to you and to your friends with you.
I will answer your words, and your friends with you.
Therfore will I geue answere vnto the & thy frendes:
I will answer thee, And thy companions with thee.
I will make answer to you and to your friends:
I will give thee answer, and thy companions with thee.
I will answere thee, and thy companions with thee.
Therefore wyll I geue aunswere vnto thee, aud to thy companions with thee.
Look up to the sky and see; and consider the clouds, how high they are above thee.
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
Therfor Y schal answere to thi wordis, and to thi frendis with thee.
I will answer you, And your companions with you.
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
"I will answer you, And your companions with you.
I will answer you, and your friends with you.
I will answer you and your friends with you.
I, will answer thee plainly, and thy friends with thee.
Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.
I will answer you and your friends with you.
I return thee words, and thy friends with thee,
"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.
"I will answer you, And your friends with you.
Contextual Overview
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
So Jacob told everyone in his household, "Get rid of all your pagan idols, purify yourselves, and put on clean clothing.
So they gave Jacob all their pagan idols and earrings, and he buried them under the great tree near Shechem.
The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant, were Dan and Naphtali.
The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant, were Gad and Asher. These are the names of the sons who were born to Jacob at Paddan-aram.
So Jacob returned to his father, Isaac, in Mamre, which is near Kiriath-arba (now called Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had both lived as foreigners.
He took the calf they had made and burned it. Then he ground it into powder, threw it into the water, and forced the people to drink it.
This is what you must do. You must break down their pagan altars and shatter their sacred pillars. Cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols.
"You must burn their idols in fire, and you must not covet the silver or gold that covers them. You must not take it or it will become a trap to you, for it is detestable to the Lord your God.
Then all the leading citizens of Shechem and Beth-millo called a meeting under the oak beside the pillar at 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, “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.
