Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"Are you saying that it's just for you to claim, "I'm more righteous than God?'
New American Standard Bible
Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?
King James Version
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
Holman Bible
“I am righteous before God”?
A Conservative Version
What [is] this thou think in judgment? Who are thou that thou said, I am righteousness before LORD?
American Standard Version
Thinkest thou this to be thy right, Or'sayest thou, My righteousness is more than God's,
Amplified
“Do you think this is according to [your] justice?
Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?
Bible in Basic English
Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,
Darby Translation
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
Julia Smith Translation
Didst thou reckon this for judgment thou saidst, My justice is above God?
King James 2000
Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's?
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Do you think this [is] justice when you say, '{I am right} before God'?
Modern King James verseion
Do you think this to be right, you that say, I am more just than God?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Thinkest thou it right, that thou saidst, 'I am righteous before God?'
NET Bible
"Do you think this to be just: when you say, 'My right before God.'
New Heart English Bible
"Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'
The Emphasized Bible
This, dost thou think to be right? Thou hast said - My righteousness is more than GOD'S.
Webster
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
World English Bible
"Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'
Youngs Literal Translation
This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- 'My righteousness is more than God's?'
Themes
Interlinear
Chashab
Mishpat
Tsedeq
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 35:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Condemns Job
1 In response, Elihu said: 2 "Are you saying that it's just for you to claim, "I'm more righteous than God?' 3 After all, you've asked what your benefit will be: "What will I profit from refraining from sin?'
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Matthew 12:36-37
I tell you, on Judgment Day people will give an account for every thoughtless word they have uttered,
Job 9:17
For he crushes me with a storm, and keeps on wounding me for no reason.
Job 10:7
Although you know that I'm not guilty, there's no one to deliver me from you!
Job 16:17
even though violence is not my intention, and my prayer is pure."
Job 19:6-7
then at least you must know that God has accused me of wrong, and trapped me with his net."
Job 27:2-6
"The living God has withheld justice from me; the Almighty has made my life bitter.
Job 34:5
Now this is Job's claim: "Even though I'm innocent, God has stopped treating me righteously.
Job 40:8
Indeed would you annul my justice and condemn me, just so you can claim that you're righteous?
Luke 19:22
The king told him, "I will judge you by your own words, you evil servant! You knew, did you, that I was a hard man, and that I withdraw what I didn't deposit and harvest what I didn't plant?