Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's? Treasury of Scripture Thinkest Matthew 12:36,37 But I say to you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment... Luke 19:22 And he said to him, Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was an austere man... My Job 9:17 For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause. Job 10:7 You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand. Job 16:17 Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure. Job 19:6,7 Know now that God has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net... Job 27:2-6 As God lives, who has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul... Job 34:5 For Job has said, I am righteous: and God has taken away my judgment. Job 40:8 Will you also cancel my judgment? will you condemn me, that you may be righteous?
Context Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice
1Elihu spoke moreover, and said, 2Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's? 3For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? 4I will answer you, and your companions with you. 5Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you. 6If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him? 7If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand? 8Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man. 9By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty. 10But none said, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night; 11Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven? 12There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men. 13Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. 14Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him. 15But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity: 16Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Thinkest thou this to be thy right, Or'sayest thou, My righteousness is more than God's,
Douay-Rheims Bible
Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say : I am more just than God?
Darby Bible Translation
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
King James Bible
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
Young's Literal Translation
This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- 'My righteousness is more than God's?'
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