Job 34:5
New International Version
“Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God denies me justice.

New Living Translation
For Job also said, ‘I am innocent, but God has taken away my rights.

English Standard Version
For Job has said, ‘I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;

Berean Standard Bible
For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.

King James Bible
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

New King James Version
“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, But God has taken away my justice;

New American Standard Bible
“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, But God has taken away my right;

NASB 1995
“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, But God has taken away my right;

NASB 1977
“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, But God has taken away my right;

Legacy Standard Bible
For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, But God has removed my justice;

Amplified Bible
“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous [and innocent], But God has taken away my right;

Christian Standard Bible
For Job has declared, “I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For Job has declared, “I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.

American Standard Version
For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You have said, Job, that you are innocent, for you said: ‘I am justified and God has turned my judgment against me!’

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For Job has said, I am righteous: the Lord has removed my judgment.

Contemporary English Version
Job claims he is innocent and God is guilty of mistreating him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For Job hath said : I am just, and God hath overthrown my judgment.

English Revised Version
For Job hath said, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my right:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
because Job has said, 'I'm righteous, but God has taken away my rights.

Good News Translation
Job claims that he is innocent, that God refuses to give him justice.

International Standard Version
Now this is Job's claim: 'Even though I'm innocent, God has stopped treating me righteously.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For Job hath said: 'I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right;

Literal Standard Version
For Job has said, I have been righteous, | And God has turned aside my right,

Majority Standard Bible
For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.

New American Bible
For Job has said, “I am innocent, but God has taken away what is my right.

NET Bible
For Job says, 'I am innocent, but God turns away my right.

New Revised Standard Version
For Job has said, ‘I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;

New Heart English Bible
For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

Webster's Bible Translation
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

World English Bible
For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right.

Young's Literal Translation
For Job hath said, 'I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,

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Context
Elihu Confirms God's Justice
4Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good. 5For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice. 6Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’…

Cross References
Job 6:29
Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.

Job 13:18
Behold, now that I have prepared my case, I know that I will be vindicated.

Job 27:2
"As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice--the Almighty, who has embittered my soul--

Job 33:9
I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.

Job 34:4
Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.

Isaiah 40:27
Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God"?


Treasury of Scripture

For Job has said, I am righteous: and God has taken away my judgment.

I

Job 10:7
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

Job 11:4
For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

Job 16:17
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

God

Job 9:17
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

Job 27:2
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

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Job 34
1. Elihu accuses Job for charging God with injustice
10. God omnipotent cannot be unjust
31. Man must humble himself unto God
34. Elihu reproves Job














(5) For Job hath said.--See Job 13:18-19; Job 27:2, especially.

Verse 5. - For Job hath said, I am righteous. Job had maintained his "righteousness" in a certain sense, i.e. his integrity, his honesty, his conviction that God would ultimately acquit him; but he had not maintained his sinlessness (see the comment on Job 33:9). He had not even said, in so many words, "I am righteous." The nearest that he had come to saying it was when (in Job 13:18) he had exclaimed, "I know that I shall be held righteous," or "justified." And God hath taken away my judgment. Job had said this (Job 27:2), but in the sense that God had withheld from him the judgment on his cause which he desired, not that he had perverted judgment, and wrongfully condemned him (see the 'Speaker's Commentary,' vol. 4. p. 97).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

Job
אִיּ֣וֹב (’î·yō·wḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 347: Job -- a patriarch

has declared,
אָ֭מַר (’ā·mar)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

‘I am righteous,
צָדַ֑קְתִּי (ṣā·ḏaq·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6663: To be just or righteous

yet God
וְ֝אֵ֗ל (wə·’êl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty

has deprived me of
הֵסִ֥יר (hê·sîr)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5493: To turn aside

justice.
מִשְׁפָּטִֽי׃ (miš·pā·ṭî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style


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