Job 36:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I get my knowledge from afar, and I will ascribe justice to my Maker.”
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BSBPD
“I get my knowledge from afar, and I will ascribe justice to my Maker.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 36:3 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.
- Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
- Job 28:12But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell?
- Job 28:20From where then does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell?
- Job 32:2This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,
- Job 32:8But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.
- Job 34:5For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
- Job 34:10Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly.
- Job 37:23The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.
- Psalms 11:7For the LORD is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.
- Psalms 145:17The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.
- Proverbs 2:4if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,
- Jeremiah 12:1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
- Daniel 9:7To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.
- Daniel 9:14Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.
- Matthew 2:1After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,
- Matthew 12:42The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.
- Acts 8:27So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship,
- Romans 3:25God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
- Romans 9:14What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!
- Romans 10:6But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down)
- James 1:5Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
- James 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
- James 3:17But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.
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