Job 34:4
Let us choose judgment for ourselves, and let us consider among ourselves what is best.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.
In Context
3For the ear examines words, and the mouth discerns foods by the taste.
5For Job has said: “I am just, yet God has subverted my judgment.
Cross References
Judges 19:30And when each one had seen this, they were crying out together, “Never has such a thing been done in Israel, from the day that our fathers ascended from Egypt, even to the present time. Let a sentence be brought and let us decide in common what ought to be done.”
Job 34:36My father, let Job be tested even to the end; may you not retreat from a man of iniquity.
John 7:24Do not judge according to appearances, but instead judge a just judgment.”
1 Corinthians 6:2Or do you not know that the saints from this age shall judge it? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you unworthy, then, to judge even the smallest matters?
1 Thessalonians 5:21But test all things. Hold on to whatever is good.
Matthew Henry on Job 34:2-10
The Address of Elihu. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Furthermore Elihu answered and said, 2 Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. 3 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. 4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good. 5 For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment. 6 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression. 7 What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? 8 Which goeth in… Read the whole commentary →