Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

For thou say, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

New American Standard Bible

“For you have said, ‘My teaching is pure,
And I am innocent in your eyes.’

King James Version

For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

Holman Bible

You have said, “My teaching is sound,
and I am pure in Your sight.”

International Standard Version

You've said, "My teaching is flawless; I'm clean in God's sight.'

American Standard Version

For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in thine eyes.

Amplified


“For you have said, ‘My teaching (doctrine) [that God knowingly afflicts the righteous] is pure,
And I am innocent in your eyes.’

Bible in Basic English

You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.

Darby Translation

For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

Julia Smith Translation

And thou wilt say, My instruction is pure, and I was clean in thine eyes.

King James 2000

For you have said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For you say, 'My teaching [is] pure, and I am clean in your sight.'

Modern King James verseion

For you have said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in Your eyes.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Wilt thou say unto God, 'The thing that I take in hand is perfect, and I am clean in thy sight'?

NET Bible

For you have said, 'My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.'

New Heart English Bible

For you say, 'My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.'

The Emphasized Bible

Since thou hast said, Right is my doctrine, and pure am I in his eyes.

Webster

For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thy eyes.

World English Bible

For you say, 'My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.'

Youngs Literal Translation

And thou sayest, 'Pure is my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
לקח 
Leqach 
Usage: 9

is pure
זך 
Zak 
Usage: 11

and I am clean
בּר 
Bar 
Usage: 7

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Zophar's First Response To Job

3 Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mock, shall no man make thee ashamed? 4 For thou say, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. 5 But O that God would speak, and open his lips against thee,

Cross References

Job 10:7

although thou know that I am not wicked. And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?

Job 6:10

And be it still my consolation, yea, let me exult (in pain that does not spare), that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Job 6:29-30

Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice. Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.

Job 7:20

If I have sinned, what do I do to thee, O thou watcher of men? Why have thou set me as a mark for thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

Job 9:2-3

Of a truth I know that it is so. But how can man be just with God?

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

Job 34:5-6

For Job has said, I am righteous, and God has taken away my right.

Job 35:2

What [is] this thou think in judgment? Who are thou that thou said, I am righteousness before LORD?

1 Peter 3:15

but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. And always be ready for a defense to every man who asks you a word about the hope in you, with mildness and fear.

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