Job 35:2

Does it seem right to you in your thoughts, that you should say, “I am more just than God?”

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In The King James Version

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?

In Context

1After this, Eliu again spoke in this way:

3For you said, “Having done what is right does not please you,” and, “How will it benefit you, if I sin?”

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Cross References

Job 9:17For he will crush me in a whirlwind and multiply my wounds, even without cause.

Job 16:17My face is swollen from weeping, and my eyelids have dimmed my vision.

Job 27:2As God lives, who has taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who has led my soul to bitterness,

Job 34:5For Job has said: “I am just, yet God has subverted my judgment.

Matthew 12:36But I say to you, that for every idle word which men will have spoken, they shall render an account in the day of judgment.

Matthew Henry on Job 35:2-9

The Address of Elihu. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Elihu spake moreover, and said, 2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's? 3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? 4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. 5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou. 6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou… Read the whole commentary →

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