Job 35:2
New International Version
“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’

New Living Translation
“Do you think it is right for you to claim, ‘I am righteous before God’?

English Standard Version
“Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’

Berean Standard Bible
“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’

King James Bible
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

New King James Version
“Do you think this is right? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

New American Standard Bible
“Do you think this is in accordance with justice? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

NASB 1995
“Do you think this is according to justice? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s ‘?

NASB 1977
“Do you think this is according to justice? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

Legacy Standard Bible
“Do you think this is according to justice? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

Amplified Bible
“Do you think this is according to [your] justice? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

Christian Standard Bible
Do you think it is just when you say, “I am righteous before God”?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Do you think it is just when you say, “I am righteous before God"?

American Standard Version
Thinkest thou this to be thy right, Or sayest thou, My righteousness is more than God's,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Were you considered within justice in this, for you said ‘I am more righteous than God?’

Brenton Septuagint Translation
What is this that thou thinkest to be according to right? who art thou that thou hast said, I am righteous before the Lord?

Contemporary English Version
Job, are you really innocent in the sight of God?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say : I am more just than God?

English Revised Version
Thinkest thou this to be thy right, or sayest thou, My righteousness is more than God's,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Do you think this is right when you say, 'My case is more just than God's,'

International Standard Version
"Are you saying that it's just for you to claim, 'I'm more righteous than God?'

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thinkest thou this to be thy right, Or sayest thou: 'I am righteousness before God',

Literal Standard Version
“Have you reckoned this for judgment [when] you have said, | My righteousness [is] more than God’s?

Majority Standard Bible
“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’

New American Bible
Do you think it right to say, “I am in the right, not God”?

NET Bible
"Do you think this to be just: when you say, 'My right before God.'

New Revised Standard Version
“Do you think this to be just? You say, ‘I am in the right before God.’

New Heart English Bible
"Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'

Webster's Bible Translation
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

World English Bible
“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

Young's Literal Translation
This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- 'My righteousness is more than God's?'

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice
1And Elihu went on to say: 2“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’ 3For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’…

Cross References
Job 27:2
"As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice--the Almighty, who has embittered my soul--

Job 35:1
And Elihu went on to say:


Treasury of Scripture

Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's?

Thinkest

Matthew 12:36,37
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment…

Luke 19:22
And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:

My

Job 9:17
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

Job 10:7
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

Job 16:17
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

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Job 35
1. Comparison is not to be made with God,
6. because our good or evil cannot extend unto him
9. Many cry in their afflictions, but are not heard for lack of faith














XXXV.

(2) My righteousness is more than God's.--See Job 19:6, &c. Job had not in so many words said this, but what he had said was capable of being so represented, and perhaps seemed to involve it. (Comp. Job 9:22; Job 10:15.) Here, again, there was a misrepresentation of what Job had said. He certainly did not mean that he was none the better for being righteous; on the contrary, he had distinctly said, "Let mine enemy be as the wicked," &c. (Job 27:7, &c.), because he could not delight himself in God; but it was perfectly true that he had said that his righteousness had not delivered him from suffering.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“Do you think
חָשַׁ֣בְתָּ (ḥā·šaḇ·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 2803: To think, account

it
הֲ֭זֹאת (hă·zōṯ)
Article | Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

is just
לְמִשְׁפָּ֑ט (lə·miš·pāṭ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

when you say,
אָ֝מַ֗רְתָּ (’ā·mar·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

‘I am righteous
צִדְקִ֥י (ṣiḏ·qî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6664: The right, equity, prosperity

before God.’?
מֵאֵֽל׃ (mê·’êl)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty


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