Self-righteousness

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningNumbers 16:3Deuteronomy 9:4–61 Samuel 2:9Job 6:13Job 11:4–6Job 12:2Job 13:3Job 13:13Job 13:15Job 13:18Job 13:19Job 16:17Job 16:18Job 18:2–4Job 21:27–29Job 22:2Job 22:3Job 32:1Job 32:2Job 33:8
• See Hypocrisy
• See Self-exaltation
• INSTANCES OF
• Saul1 Samuel 15:13–31
• Young man, see above
• Lawyer, see above
• PhariseesLuke 11:33–54John 8:33–59John 9:28–34
• IsraelRomans 10:3
• The Laodicean congregationRevelation 3:17

The passages, in Bible order (98)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Numbers 16:3

   They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them, “You have taken too much upon yourselves! For everyone in the entire congregation is holy, and the LORD is in their midst. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”

   ›Commentary on Numbers 16:32 voices

   “All the congregation are holy - Compare the marginal reference. Korah’s object was not to abolish the distinction between the Levites and the people, but to win priestly dignity for himself and his kinsmen Num 16:10. This ultimate design is masked for the present in order to win support from the Reubenites by putting forward claims to spiritual equality on behalf of every Israelite.

   “They unjustly charge Moses and Aaron with taking the honour they had to themselves, whereas it was evident, beyond contradiction, that they were called of God to it, Heb. v. 4 .

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2. Deuteronomy 9:4–6

   When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 9:4–61 voice

   “I ask, what could be said more clearly against that pernicious opinion and presumption of ours, by which we want to attribute everything that we do to our free will and to our own effort? "Do not say in your heart, when the Lord your God has destroyed them in your sight: Because of my righteousness the Lord has led me in to possess this land." Did he not express himself clearly to those whose souls' eyes are open and whose ears hear?

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3. 1 Samuel 2:9

   He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 2:91 voice

   “He will keep the feet of his saints - He will order and direct all their goings, and keep them from every evil way. The wicked shall be silent in darkness - The Targum understands this of their being sent to the darkness of hell; they shall be slain. By strength shall no man prevail - Because God is omnipotent, and no power can be successfully exerted against him.

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4. 1 Samuel 15:13–31

   When Samuel reached him, Saul said to him, “May the LORD bless you. I have carried out the LORD’s instructions.”

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 15:13–312 voices

   “Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the Lord: I have performed the commandment of the Lord--Saul was either blinded by a partial and delusive self-love, or he was, in his declaration to Samuel, acting the part of a bold and artful hypocrite. He professed to have fulfilled the divine command, and that the blame of any defects in the execution lay with the people.

   “Gilgal being within 15 miles of Ramah, Samuel might easily have come from Ramah that morning. Self-will and rashness had hitherto been Saul’s chief faults. He now seems to add falsehood and hypocrisy.

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5. Job 6:13

   Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me?

   ›Commentary on Job 6:131 voice

   “Is not my help in me? - This would be better rendered in an affirmative manner, or as an exclamation. The interrogative form of the previous verses need not be continued in this. The sense is, “alas! there is no help in me!” That is, “I have no strength; I must give up under these sorrows in despair.” So it is rendered by Jerome, Rosenmuller, Good, Noyes, and others.

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6. Job 11:4–6

   You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’

   ›Commentary on Job 11:4–62 voices

   “For Thou hast said, My speech is pure, and I am clean in Thine eyes. Whoso remembers the words of blessed Job, knows how falsely this charge is fastened upon his voice.

   “My doctrine is pure - לקחי likchi, “my assumptions.” What I assume or take as right, and just, and true, are so; the precepts which I have formed, and the practice which I have founded on them, are all correct and perfect.

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7. Job 12:2

   “Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!

   ›Commentary on Job 12:22 voices

   “No doubt but ye are the only men, and wisdom shall die with you. Now Zophar would have said this aright, if blessed Job had not proclaimed it all more fully even by living accordingly.

   “Job speaks in an admirable way. Instead of briefly saying, "You would not be able to be men," he questions them, and what does he ask? "So are you really men, and shall wisdom die with you?" This means, "Is the honor of rational beings …

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8. Job 13:3

   Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.

   ›Commentary on Job 13:31 voice

   “Surely I would speak to the Almighty - I would desire to carry my cause directly up to God, and spread out my reasons before him. This Job often professed to desire; see Job 9:34-35. He felt that God would appreciate the arguments which he would urge, and would do justice to them. His friends he felt were censorious and severe. They neither did justice to his feelings, nor to his motives. They perverted his words and arguments; and instead of consoling him, they only aggravated his trials, and caused him to sink into deeper sorrows.

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9. Job 13:13

   Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.

   ›Commentary on Job 13:131 voice

   “Hold your peace - Margin, Be silent from me; see Job 13:5. It is possible that Job may have perceived in them some disposition to interrupt him in a rude manner in reply to the severe remarks which he had made, and he asked the privilege, therefore, of being permitted to go on, and to say what he intended, let come what would. And let come on me what will - Anything, whether reproaches from you, or additional sufferings from the hand of God. Allow me to express my sentiments, whatever may be the consequences to myself.

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10. Job 13:15

    Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.

    ›Commentary on Job 13:152 voices

    “Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him. But I will rebuke mine own ways before Him. He also shall be my salvation. There is no room for the virtue of patience in prosperous circumstances. He is really patient, who is at once bruised with misfortune, and yet not bowed down from the erectness of his hope. Concerning the temper of mind of the reprobate man it is written, He will praise Thee, when Thou doest well to him.

    “Though he slay me - “God may so multiply my sorrows and pains that I cannot survive them. I see that I may be exposed to increased calamities, yet I am willing to meet them. If in maintaining my own cause, and showing that I am not a hypocrite Job 13:16, it should so happen that my sufferings should be so increased that I should die, yet I will do it.” The word “slay,” or “kill,” here refers to temporal death. It has no reference to punishment in the future world, or to the death of the soul.

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11. Job 13:18

    Behold, now that I have prepared my case, I know that I will be vindicated.

    ›Commentary on Job 13:182 voices

    “If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just. Which too is not at variance with the person of the self-same blessed Job, since he is only telling that concerning himself without, which 'Truth' had inwardly declared to his enemy concerning him; Hast thou considered My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth? And yet it is much less that the holy man records concerning himself, than what the Lord declared concerning him. For it is one thing to be 'just,' and another to have 'none like him.'

    “This he knew because he knew that his Redeemer lived, ch. xix. Those whose hearts are upright with God, in walking not after the flesh but after the Spirit, may be sure that through Christ there shall be no condemnation to them, but that, whoever lays any thing to their charge, they shall be justified: they may know that they shall.

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12. Job 13:19

    Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.

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13. Job 16:17

    yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

    ›Commentary on Job 16:171 voice

    “Ver. 17. I have suffered this without the wickedness of mine hand, whilst I made pure prayers to God. He suffered without the wickedness of His hand; Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth, and yet endured the pain of the Cross for our redemption. Who only above all others 'made pure prayers to God,' in that even in the very anguish of His Passion He prayed in behalf of His persecutors, saying, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

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14. Job 16:18

    O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.

    ›Commentary on Job 16:181 voice

    “O earth, cover not thou my blood - This is evidently an allusion to the murder of Abel, and the verse has been understood in two different ways: 1. Job here calls for justice against his destroyers. His blood is his life, which he considers as taken away by violence, and therefore calls for vengeance. Let my blood cry against my murderers, as the blood of Abel cried against Cain.

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15. Job 18:2–4

    “How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.

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    “How long will it be ere ye make an end - It is difficult to say to whom this address is made: being in the plural number, it can hardly be supposed to mean Job only. It probably means all present; as if he had said, It is vain to talk with this man, and follow him through all his quibbles: take notice of this, and then let us all deliver our sentiments fully to him, without paying any regard to his self-vindications.

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16. Job 21:27–29

    Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

    ›Commentary on Job 21:27–292 voices

    “Ver. 27, 28. Behold I know your thoughts, and the devices that ye wrongfully imagine against me. For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwellings of the wicked? 63. For they had imagined him a wicked man, whom they saw, his substance gone, in a temporal way ruined. But the holy man judges them with a lofty review in proportion as amidst the losses which he had met with, he was standing with undiminished uprightness.

    “Behold, I know your thoughts - That is, “I see that you are not satisfied, and that you are disposed still to maintain your former position. You will be ready to ask, Where “are” the proofs of the prosperity of the wicked? Where “are” the palaces of the mighty? Where “are” the dwelling places of ungodly men!” And the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me - The course of sophistical argument which you pursue, the tendency and design of which is to prove that I am a wicked man.

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