Job 35:2
“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
BSB
ASV
Thinkest thou this to be thy right, Or sayest thou, My righteousness is more than God’s,
KJV
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?
Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou saidst, I am more righteous than God. Every one observes, who reads the text of the history, that blessed Job did not say that he was more righteous than God. But he says, Let Him put forth equity against me, and my judgment shall come to victory. [Job 23, 7. Vulg.] Examining namely his life, and not knowing the reasons of his smiting, as has been often observed, he believed that he was scourged for the sake of washing away his sins, and not of increasing his merits.
My righteousness is more than God’s? - This would indeed be a blasphemous saying; but Job never said so, neither directly nor constructively: it would be much better to translate the words צדקי מאל tsidki meel, I am righteous Before God. And Job’s meaning most certainly was, “Whatever I am in your sight, I know that in the sight of God I am a righteous man;” and he had a right to assume this character, because God himself had given it to him.
25:4: "I am righteous (literally, my righteousness is) before God." The English Version, however, agrees with Job 9:17; Job 4:17 is susceptible of either rendering. Elihu means Job said so, not in so many words, but virtually.
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Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
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Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
This 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,
Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.
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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…
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For David had said to the Amalekite, “Your blood be on your own head because your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I killed the LORD’s anointed.’”
For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
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Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
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See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My…