Job 35:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’”
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““Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thinkest thou this to be thy right, Or sayest thou, My righteousness is more than God’s,”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said--`My righteousness <FI>is<Fi> more than God's?'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 35:2 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 9:17For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
- Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
- Job 16:17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
- Job 19:6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
- Job 27:2“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice— the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—
- Job 33:9‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
- Job 34:5For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
- Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
- Matthew 12:36But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.
- Luke 19:22His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
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