Job 35:2
What is this that thou thinkest to be according to right? who art thou that thou hast said, I am righteous before the Lord?
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?
In Context
Cross References
Job 9:17Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made my bruises many without cause.
Job 16:17Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Job 27:2As God lives, who has thus judged me; and the Almighty, who has embittered my soul;
Job 34:5For Job has said, I am righteous: the Lord has removed my 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 →