Job 36:3
New International Version
I get my knowledge from afar; I will ascribe justice to my Maker.

New Living Translation
I will present profound arguments for the righteousness of my Creator.

English Standard Version
I will get my knowledge from afar and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Berean Standard Bible
I get my knowledge from afar, and I will ascribe justice to my Maker.

King James Bible
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

New King James Version
I will fetch my knowledge from afar; I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

New American Standard Bible
“I will bring my knowledge from afar, And ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

NASB 1995
“I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

NASB 1977
“I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Legacy Standard Bible
I will take up my knowledge from afar, And I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Amplified Bible
“I will bring my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Christian Standard Bible
I will get my knowledge from a distant place and ascribe justice to my Maker.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will get my knowledge from a distant place and ascribe justice to my Maker.

American Standard Version
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
I shall take my knowledge from a distance, and to my Maker I shall give the right

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Having fetched my knowledge from afar, and according to my works,

Contemporary English Version
God always does right--and this knowledge comes straight from God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove my Maker just.

English Revised Version
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I will get my knowledge from far away and prove that my Creator is fair.

Good News Translation
My knowledge is wide; I will use what I know to show that God, my Creator, is just.

International Standard Version
I'll take what I know to its logical conclusion and ascribe righteousness to my Creator,

JPS Tanakh 1917
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Literal Standard Version
I lift up my knowledge from afar, | And I ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Majority Standard Bible
I get my knowledge from afar, and I will ascribe justice to my Maker.

New American Bible
I will assemble arguments from afar, and for my maker I will establish what is right.

NET Bible
With my knowledge I will speak comprehensively, and to my Creator I will ascribe righteousness.

New Revised Standard Version
I will bring my knowledge from far away, and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

New Heart English Bible
I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Webster's Bible Translation
I will bring my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

World English Bible
I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Young's Literal Translation
I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.

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Context
Elihu Declares God's Justice and Power
2“Bear with me a little longer, and I will show you that there is more to be said on God’s behalf. 3I get my knowledge from afar, and I will ascribe justice to my Maker. 4For truly my words are free of falsehood; one perfect in knowledge is with you.…

Cross References
Job 4:17
Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

Job 8:3
Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?

Job 36:2
"Bear with me a little longer, and I will show you that there is more to be said on God's behalf.

Job 37:23
The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.


Treasury of Scripture

I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

fetch

Job 28:12,13,20-24
But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? …

Job 32:8
But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

Proverbs 2:4,5
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; …

ascribe

Job 32:2
Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

Job 34:5,10-12
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment…

Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

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Job 36
1. Elihu shows how God is just in his ways
16. How Job's sins hinder God's blessings
24. God's works are to be magnified














(3) I will fetch my knowledge from afar.--But is not this what Bildad had said before him? (Job 8:8, &c.); and yet the teaching of Job 36:6 is not very different from his.

Verse 3. - I will fetch my knowledge from afar (compare the declaration of Bildad, Job 8:8). In neither case does the performance justify the pretentious character of the preface. Elihu's arguments are, for the most part, trite and commonplace. And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. I will show, i.e., that God is righteous and just (comp. Job 34:10, 12).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I get
אֶשָּׂ֣א (’eś·śā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

my knowledge
דֵ֭עִי (ḏê·‘î)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1843: Knowledge, opinion

from afar,
לְמֵרָח֑וֹק (lə·mê·rā·ḥō·wq)
Preposition-l, Preposition-m | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7350: Remote, of place, time, precious

and I will ascribe
אֶֽתֵּֽן־ (’et·tên-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

justice
צֶֽדֶק׃ (ṣe·ḏeq)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6664: The right, equity, prosperity

to my Maker.
וּ֝לְפֹעֲלִ֗י (ū·lə·p̄ō·‘ă·lî)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6466: To do, make, to practise


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