Job 35:2 Parallel Translations
NASB: "Do you think this is according to justice? Do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's '? (NASB ©1995)
GWT: "Do you think this is right when you say, 'My case is more just than God's,'(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
ASV: Thinkest thou this to be thy right, Or'sayest thou, My righteousness is more than God's,
BBE: Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,
DBY: Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than łGod's?
ERV: Thinkest thou this to be thy right, or sayest thou, My righteousness is more than God's,
JPS: Thinkest thou this to be thy right, or sayest thou: 'I am righteousness before God',
WBS: Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
WEB: "Do you think this to be your right, or do you say,'My righteousness is more than God's,'
YLT: This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- 'My righteousness is more than God's?'
Job 35:2 Cross References
XREF:Job 27:2 "As God lives, who has taken away my right, And the Almighty, who has embittered my soul, (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 35:2 Thinkest thou this to be right, [that] thou saidst, My {a} righteousness [is] more than God's?
(a) Job never spoke these words: but because he maintained his innocency, it seemed as though he would say, that God tormented him without just cause.
WES: 35:2 Thou saidst - Not that Job said this in express terms, but he said those things from which this might seem to follow, as that God had punished him more than he deserved.
MHC: 35:1-8 Elihu reproves Job for justifying himself more than God, and called his attention to the heavens. They are far above us, and God is far above them; how much then is he out of the reach, either of our sins or of our services! We have no reason to complain if we have not what we expect, but should be thankful that we have better than we deserve.
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