Job 34:5
For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
BSB
ASV
For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:
KJV
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
For Job hath said, I am just, and God hath subverted my judgment. For in judging me there is falsehood: and mine arrow is violent without any sin. He complains that Job had spoken these things, [See chap. 27, 2] which the words of the sacred history prove on examination that he had never said. But he, who had sought for a judgment on equal terms, proceeds to promulgate a sentence from a fault of his own invention.
For Job hath said, I am righteous,.... Not in express words, but what amounted to it: no doubt he was a righteous man in an evangelic sense, being justified by the righteousness of Christ, as all the Old Testament saints were, who looked to him and believed in him as the Lord their righteousness, and said, as the church in those times did, "surely in the Lord have I righteousness and strength"; Isa 45:
For Job hath said, I am righteous - see Job 13:18, “I know that I shall be justified;” compare Job 23:10-11, where he says, if he was tried he would come forth as gold. Elihu may have also referred to the general course of remark which he had pursued as vindicating himself. And God hath taken away my judgment - This sentiment is found in Job 27:2; see the notes at that place.
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Job 16:17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
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The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.