Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?
New American Standard Bible
Will you
King James Version
Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
Holman Bible
Would you declare Me guilty
International Standard Version
Indeed would you annul my justice and condemn me, just so you can claim that you're righteous?
American Standard Version
Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?
Amplified
“Will you really annul My judgment and set it aside as void?
Will you condemn Me [your God] that you may [appear to] be righteous and justified?
Darby Translation
Wilt thou also annul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me that thou mayest be righteous?
Julia Smith Translation
Wilt thou also annul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me so that thou shalt be just?
King James 2000
Will you also annul my judgment? will you condemn me, that you may be righteous?
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Indeed, would you annul my justice? Would you condemn me, so that you might be righteous?
Modern King James verseion
Will you also set aside My judgment? Will you condemn Me so that you may be justified?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wilt thou disannul my judgment? Or wilt thou condemn me, that thou thyself mayest be made righteous?
NET Bible
Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?
New Heart English Bible
Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
The Emphasized Bible
Wilt thou even frustrate my justice? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest appear right?
Webster
Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
World English Bible
Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
Youngs Literal Translation
Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?
Interlinear
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Word Count of 19 Translations in Job 40:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
I Am The Lord All-Powerful
7 Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers. 8 Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right? 9 Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?
Cross References
Job 10:3
What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?
Job 32:2
And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;
Romans 3:4
In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged.
Job 27:2-6
By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;
Job 34:5-6
For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;
Job 35:2-3
Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,
Psalm 51:4
Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.
Isaiah 14:27
For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?
Isaiah 28:18
And the help you were looking for from death will come to nothing, and your agreement with the underworld will be broken; when the overflowing waters come through, then you will be overcome by them.
Galatians 3:15
Brothers, as men would say, even a man's agreement, when it has been made certain, may not be put on one side, or have additions made to it.
Galatians 3:17
Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect.
Hebrews 7:18
So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit.