Job 34:23
For he needs no further to consider a man, that he should go before God in judgment.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
In Context
22There is no darkness, nor thick gloom where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
24He breaks in pieces mighty men [in ways] past finding out, and sets others in their stead.
Cross References
Ezra 9:13And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that thou our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,
Job 9:32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
Job 11:11For he knows FALSE men. He also sees iniquity. Will he not then consider it?
Job 23:7There the upright might reason with him. So I should be delivered forever from my judge.
Psalms 119:137Thou are righteous, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.
Jeremiah 2:5Thus says LORD: What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?
Matthew Henry on Job 34:17-31
16 If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words. 17 Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just? 18 Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly? 19 How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands. 20 In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken… Read the whole commentary →