Job 34:23
For He does not permit man anymore, || To go to God in judgment,
Literal Standard 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 death-shade, || For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;
24He breaks the mighty—no searching! And He appoints others in their stead.
Cross References
Ezra 9:13And after all that has come on us for our evil works, and for our great guilt (for You, O our God, have kept back of the rod from our iniquities, and have given to us an escape like this),
Job 9:32But if a man like myself—I answer Him, || We come together into judgment.
Job 11:11For He has known men of vanity, || And He sees iniquity, || And one does not consider [it]!
Job 23:7There the upright reason with Him, || And I escape from mine who is judging—forever.
Psalms 119:137[TSADE] You [are] righteous, O YHWH, || And Your judgments [are] upright.
Jeremiah 2:5Thus said YHWH: “What perversity have your fathers found in Me, || That they have gone far off from Me, || And go after vanity, and 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 →