Job 34:5
For Job has said: “I am just, yet God has subverted my judgment.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
In Context
4Let us choose judgment for ourselves, and let us consider among ourselves what is best.
6For, within my judgment, there is a lie: my vehement barbs are without any sin.”
Cross References
Job 9:17For he will crush me in a whirlwind and multiply my wounds, even without cause.
Job 11:4For you said: “My word is pure, and I am clean in your sight.”
Job 19:7Behold, I will cry out, enduring violence, and no one will hear. I will announce loudly, but there is no one who may judge.
Job 29:14I put on justice, and I clothed myself with my judgment, like a robe and a diadem.
Job 33:9“I am clean and without sin; I am immaculate, and there is no iniquity in me.
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 →