Job 34:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.”
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BSBPD
“For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“For Job hath said, `I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 34:5 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
- Job 9:17For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
- Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
- Job 11:4You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’
- Job 16:17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
- Job 19:7Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
- Job 27:2“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice— the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—
- Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.
- Job 32:1So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
- Job 33:9‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
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