Job 34:5
Good News Translation
Job claims that he is innocent, that God refuses to give him justice.

New Revised Standard Version
For Job has said, ‘I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;

Contemporary English Version
Job claims he is innocent and God is guilty of mistreating him.

New American Bible
For Job has said, “I am innocent, but God has taken away what is my right.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For Job hath said: I am just, and God hath overthrown my judgment.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For Job hath said: I am just, and God hath overthrown my judgment.

I

Job 10:7 And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of thy hand?

Job 11:4 For thou hast said: My word is pure, and I am clean in thy sight.

Job 16:17 These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God.

Job 29:14 I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.

Job 32:1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he seemed just to himself.

Job 33:9 I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me.

God

Job 9:17 For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and multiply my wounds even without cause.

Job 27:2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,

Context
Elihu Confirms God's Justice
4Let us choose to us judgment, and let us see among ourselves what is the best. 5For Job hath said: I am just, and God hath overthrown my judgment.6For in judging me there is a lie: my arrow is violent without any sin.…
Cross References
Job 6:29
Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that which is just, judge ye.

Job 13:18
If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.

Job 27:2
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,

Job 33:9
I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me.

Job 34:4
Let us choose to us judgment, and let us see among ourselves what is the best.

Isaiah 40:27
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel: My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

Job 34:4
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