Job 35:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 35

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²Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

Job 35:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 12:36-37
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. …
Job 40:8
Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
Luke 19:22
And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:
Job 34:5
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
Job 19:6-7
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. …

Topics

Creation God Man Neighbor Self-Righteousness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

We have here, I. The bad words which Elihu charges upon Job, Job 35:2, 3. To evince the badness of them he appeals to Job himself, and his own sober thoughts, in the reflection: Thinkest thou this to be right? This intimates Elihu’s confidence that the reproof he now gave was just, for he could refer the judgment of it even to Job himself. Those that have truth and equity on their side sooner or l…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

Job 35:1-16. 2. more than--rather as in Job 9:2; 25:4: “I am righteous (literally, my righteousness is) before God.” The English Version, however, agrees with Job 9:17; 16:12-17; 27:2-6. Job 4:17 is susceptible of either rendering. Elihu means Job said so, not in so many words, but virtually.