Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I will open unto thee yet more of mine understanding, and prove my maker righteous.
New American Standard Bible
And I will ascribe
King James Version
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
Holman Bible
and ascribe justice to my Maker.
International Standard Version
I'll take what I know to its logical conclusion and ascribe righteousness to my Creator,
A Conservative Version
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my maker.
American Standard Version
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
Amplified
“I will bring my knowledge from afar,
And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
Bible in Basic English
I will get my knowledge from far, and I will give righteousness to my Maker.
Darby Translation
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Creator.
Julia Smith Translation
I will lift up my knowledge from far off, and to him making me, I will give justice.
King James 2000
I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I will bring my knowledge from far away, and I will ascribe righteousness to my maker,
Modern King James verseion
I will bring my knowledge from afar, and I will credit righteousness to my Maker.
NET Bible
With my knowledge I will speak comprehensively, and to my Creator I will ascribe righteousness.
New Heart English Bible
I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
The Emphasized Bible
I will bring my knowledge from afar, and, to my Maker, will I attribute righteousness.
Webster
I will bring my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
World English Bible
I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
Youngs Literal Translation
I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 36:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Extols God's Greatness
2 "Hold thee still a little, and I shall show thee what I have yet to speak on God's behalf. 3 I will open unto thee yet more of mine understanding, and prove my maker righteous. 4 True are my words, and no lie: and the knowledge wherewithal I argue against thee, is perfect.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:4
He is a Rock, and perfect are his deeds, for all his ways are with discretion. God is faithful and without wickedness, both righteous and just is he.
Psalm 11:7
For the LORD is righteous, and he loveth righteousness: his countenance will behold the thing that is just.
Psalm 145:17
The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
James 1:5
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, which giveth to all men indifferently and casteth no man in the teeth; and it shall be given him.
James 1:17
Every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above and cometh down from the father of light, with whom is no variableness, neither is he changed unto darkness.
James 3:17
but the wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, and without simulation.
Revelation 15:3
and they sang the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the lamb, saying,
Job 8:3
Doth God pervert the thing that is lawful? Or, doth the Almighty destroy the thing that is right?
Job 28:12-13
How cometh a man then by wisdom? Where is the place that men find understanding?
Job 28:20-24
"From where then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?
Job 32:2
But Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite of the kindred of Ram, was very sore displeased at Job, that he called himself just before God.
Job 32:8
Every man, no doubt, hath a mind; but it is the inspiration of the Almighty that giveth understanding.
Job 34:5
And why? Job hath said, 'I am righteous, but God doth me wrong.'
Job 34:10-12
"Therefore hearken unto me, ye that have understanding. Far be it from God, that he should meddle with wickedness: and far be it from the Almighty, that he should meddle with unrighteous dealing:
Job 37:23
It is not we that can find out the Almighty: for in power, equity, and righteousness, he is higher than can be expressed.
Proverbs 2:4-5
If thou seekest after her as after money, and diggest for her as for treasures;
Jeremiah 12:1
O LORD, thou art more righteous than that I should dispute with thee: Nevertheless, let me talk with thee in things reasonable. How happeneth it, that the way of the ungodly is so prosperous? And that it goeth so well with them, which without any shame offend and live in wickedness?
Daniel 9:7
O LORD righteousness belongeth unto thee; unto us pertaineth nothing but open shame: as it is come to pass this day unto every man of Judah, and to them that dwell at Jerusalem. Yea, unto all Israel, whether they be far or nigh, throughout all lands wherein thou hast strawed them, because of the offenses that they had done against thee.
Daniel 9:14
Therefore hath the LORD made haste, to bring this plague upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doth. For why? We would not hearken unto his voice.
Matthew 2:1-2
When Jesus was born at Bethlehem in Jewry in the time of Herod the king, Behold, there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem,
Matthew 12:42
The queen of the south shall rise at the day of judgment with this generation, and shall condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the world, to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Acts 8:27-40
And he arose and went on, and behold, a man of Ethiopia which was a chamberlain and of great authority with Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, and had the rule of all her treasure, came to Jerusalem for to pray.
Romans 3:25-26
- whom God hath set forth for a mercy seat through faith in his blood, to show the righteousness which before him is of valour, in that he forgiveth the sins that are passed,
Romans 9:14
What shall we say then? Is there any unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
Romans 10:6-8
But the righteousness which cometh of faith, speaketh on this wise, "Say not in thine heart, 'who shall ascend into heaven?'" That is nothing else than to fetch Christ down.