Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“I will fetch my knowledge from afar,
And I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

King James Version

I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Holman Bible

I will get my knowledge from a distant place
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.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I will open unto thee yet more of mine understanding, and prove my maker righteous.

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I will fetch
נסה נשׂא 
Nasa' 
Usage: 653

דּע 
Dea` 
Usage: 5

רחק רחוק 
Rachowq 
Usage: 85

and will ascribe
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

References

American

Context Readings

Elihu Extols God's Greatness

2 Bear with me a little longer and I will show you that there is more to be said in God's behalf. 3 “I will fetch my knowledge from afar,
And I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4 Be assured that my words are not false! One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the Rock! His work is perfect. For all His ways are just. He is a God of faithfulness and without evil. He is just and upright.

Psalm 11:7

Jehovah is righteous. He loves a righteous way of life. Upright people will see his face (contemplate his presence).

Psalm 145:17

Jehovah is righteous in all his ways. He is kind in all his deeds.

James 1:5

If any of you lacks wisdom let him ask of God. He gives to all generously and without reproach and it will be given to him.

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. It comes down from the Father of lights (truth and spiritual purity), with whom there is no variation. He does not change like shifting shadows.

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable (yielding), full of mercy and good fruits, without discord (partiality), without hypocrisy.

Revelation 15:3

They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: Great and marvelous are your works, Jehovah God, the Almighty; just and true are your ways, you King of the ages (Eternal King) (King of the nations) (King of the holy ones). (Deuteronomy 31:30; 32:4) (Exodus 6:3)

Job 8:3

Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?

Job 28:12-13

Where can wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

Job 28:20-24

Where does wisdom come from? Where does understanding live?

Job 32:2

Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became angry. He was angry with Job because he justified himself rather than God.

Job 32:8

But truly it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty that makes for understanding.

Job 34:5

Job has said: 'I am innocent, and God has taken away my right.

Job 34:10-12

Hear me, you who have sense, far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.

Job 37:23

We cannot find the Almighty. He is exalted in power but will not do violence to justice and abundant righteousness.

Proverbs 2:4-5

Search for wisdom as if it were silver. Hunt for it as if it were hidden treasure!

Jeremiah 12:1

Jehovah, if I argued my case with you, you would prove to be right. Indeed, I must question you about matters of justice. Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why do dishonest people succeed with impunity?

Daniel 9:7

O Jehovah, righteousness belongs to you! Shame belongs to us this day! To the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

Daniel 9:14

Therefore Jehovah watched over the evil and brought it upon us. Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works. We have not obeyed his voice.

Matthew 2:1-2

Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea during the reign of King Herod. Astrologers arrived in Jerusalem from the east.

Matthew 12:42

The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and condemn it. She came from the ends of the earth to hear the Wisdom of Solomon. Someone greater than Solomon is here!

Acts 8:27-40

He went and an Ethiopian eunuch (government official), a man of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem to worship.

Romans 3:25-26

God displayed Christ publicly as propitiation (atonement) by his blood through faith. It demonstrated his righteousness. It was through the forbearance of God that he passed by the sins that had taken place before.

Romans 9:14

What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? There is not!

Romans 10:6-8

But the righteousness of faith speaks this way: Do not say in your heart: 'who will ascend to heaven? That is, to bring Christ down;

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