Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Didst thou reckon this for judgment thou saidst, My justice is above God?

New American Standard Bible

“Do you think this is according to justice?
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

Do you think it is just when you say,
“I am righteous before God”?

International Standard Version

"Are you saying that it's just for you to claim, "I'm more righteous than 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?

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?'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
thou this to be right
משׁפּט 
Mishpat 
Usage: 421

Context Readings

Elihu Condemns Job

1 And Elihu will answer and say, 2 Didst thou reckon this for judgment thou saidst, My justice is above God? 3 For thou wilt say, What shall it profit to thee? what shall I profit from my sin?


Cross References

Matthew 12:36-37

And I say to you, That every idle word which men speak, they shill return word for it in the day of judgment.

Job 9:17

Who will assail me with tempest, and he multiplied my wounds without cause.

Job 10:7

Upon thy knowledge that I will not do evil; and none delivering from thy hand.

Job 16:17

Not for violence in my hands: and my prayer is clean.

Job 19:6-7

Know ye now that God subverted me; and he folded his net about me.

Job 27:2-6

God lives, he removed my judgment; and the Almighty embittered my soul;

Job 34:5

For Job said, I was just: and God removed my judgment

Job 40:8

Wilt thou also annul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me so that thou shalt be just?

Luke 19:22

And he said to him, Out of thy month will I judge thee, O evil servant. Thou knewest that I am an austere man, taking up what I laid not down, and reaping what I sowed not:

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