Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- 'My righteousness is more than God's?'

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?

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,'

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 answereth and saith: -- 2 This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- 'My righteousness is more than God's?' 3 For thou sayest, 'What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'

Cross References

Matthew 12:36-37

'And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

Job 9:17

Because with a tempest He bruiseth me, And hath multiplied my wounds for nought.

Job 10:7

For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.

Job 16:17

Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.

Job 19:6-7

Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,

Job 27:2-6

God liveth! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty -- He made my soul bitter.

Job 34:5

For Job hath said, 'I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,

Job 40:8

Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

Luke 19:22

'And he saith to him, Out of thy mouth I will judge thee, evil servant: thou knewest that I am an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow!

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