Job 34:5
For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
In Context
4Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.
6Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
Cross References
Job 9:17For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
Job 11:4You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’
Job 19:7Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.
Job 33:9‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with 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 →