Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Turn into your own selves, I pray you: be indifferent judges, and consider my guiltlessness:
New American Standard Bible
Even desist,
King James Version
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Holman Bible
Reconsider; my righteousness
International Standard Version
Repent! Let there be no injustice; Change your ways! My vindication is at stake.
A Conservative Version
Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice. Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.
American Standard Version
Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.
Amplified
“Turn away [from your suspicion], let there be no injustice;
Turn away, my righteousness and vindication is still in it.
Bible in Basic English
Let your minds be changed, and do not have an evil opinion of me; yes, be changed, for my righteousness is still in me.
Darby Translation
Return, I pray you, let there be no wrong; yea, return again, my righteousness shall be in it.
Julia Smith Translation
Turn ye back now, it shall not be iniquity; and turn back yet, my justice is in it
King James 2000
Return, I pray you, let it not be injustice; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Please turn, let no injustice happen; indeed, turn, {my righteousness is still intact}.
Modern King James verseion
Turn back, please let there be no sin; yea, return again, my righteousness is in this matter.
NET Bible
Relent, let there be no falsehood; reconsider, for my righteousness is intact!
New Heart English Bible
Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.
The Emphasized Bible
Reply, I pray you, let there be no perversity, Yea reply even yet, my vindication is in it!
Webster
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yes, return again, my righteousness is in it.
World English Bible
Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.
Youngs Literal Translation
Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again -- my righteousness is in it.
Interlinear
Shuwb
`evel
Shuwb
Tsedeq
References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 6:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
28 Wherefore look not only upon me, but upon yourselves: whether I lie, or no. 29 Turn into your own selves, I pray you: be indifferent judges, and consider my guiltlessness: 30 whether there be any unrighteousness in my tongue, or vain words in my mouth.
Cross References
Job 17:10
"As for you, turn you, and get you hence, I pray you - seeing I cannot see one wise man among you.
Job 23:10
But as for my way, he knoweth it: and tryeth me as the gold in the fire.
Job 27:4-6
while my breath is in me, and as long as the wind that God hath given me is in my nostrils.
Job 34:5
And why? Job hath said, 'I am righteous, but God doth me wrong.'
Job 42:6
Wherefore I give mine own self the blame, and take repentance in the dust and ashes."
Malachi 3:18
Turn you therefore, and consider what difference is betwixt the righteous and ungodly: betwixt him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.