Job 6:29
in Job 6Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.
KJV
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
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This verse in Job 6
Commentary
10 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Return--rather, "retract" your charges: let it not be iniquity--that is, (retract) that injustice may not be done me. Yea retract, "my righteousness is in it"; that is, my right is involved in this matter.
This site's exposition
But now, please look at me
on Job 6:28-30
Job asks to be looked at, "But now, please look at me," and offers his visible integrity as evidence: "Would I lie to your face". The chapter closes with his confidence in his own moral discernment, "Can my mouth not discern malice," a claim the book's ending leaves standing.
This site's exposition
Reconsider; do not be unjust
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown read reconsider as a call to take back the charges. Job's righteousness, his right in the case, hangs on their verdict. Barnes hears a plea for the friends to stay and hear the argument through.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church2 voices
He continues lest anyone think that he says this because he is afraid to argue with them because he could not be confident in the truth of his opinion and the justice of his case, "Despite this, finish what you began to say," so that …
A commentator
Gregory the DialogistMorals on the Book of Job, Book VIII · Written before 604.
proposed
Answer, I pray you, without strife. For neither do heretics try to attain truth by their investigations, but to appear to be the winners; and whereas they desire to shew for wise without, they are bound within in their foolishness with the chains of their own pride; hence it comes to pass that they look out for contests of rivalry, and concerning God, Who is our Peace, they know not how to speak with peaceableness, and by the article of peace they become contrivers of strife.
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. 5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? 6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — verbatim-scripture
Return - Turn from your former judgment. Iniquity - Or, there shall be no iniquity, in my words. Righteousness - In this cause or matter between you and me; and you will find the right to be on my side.
Return, I pray you,....
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Return, I pray you - Reconsider the whole subject. Do not be offended. Yea, reconsider the subject; my righteousness is in it - my argumentation is a sufficient proof of my innocence.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Return, I pray you - That is, return to the argument. Give your attention to it again. Perhaps he may have discerned a disposition in them to turn away from what he was saying, and to withdraw and leave him. Job expresses his belief that he could convince them; and he proposes more fully to state his views, if they would attend to him. Let it not be iniquity - Let it not be considered as wrong thus to come back to the argument. Or, let it not be assumed that my sentiments are erroneous, and my heart evil.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שֻֽׁבוּ־ | shuvu- | turn back | H7725 → | 1056 times |
| נָ֭א | na' | please | H4994 → | 404 times |
| אַל־ | ʾal- | may not | H408 → | 724 times |
| תְּהִ֣י | tehi | it be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| עַוְלָ֑ה | ʾavlah | injustice | H5766 → | 54 times |
| וְשׁ֥וּבוּ | veshuvi | and turn back | H7725 → | 1056 times |
| ע֝וֹד | od | still | H5750 → | 490 times |
| צִדְקִי־ | tzidki- | righteousness my | H6664 → | 119 times |
| בָֽהּ׃ | vah | [is] in it |
שֻֽׁבוּ־turn back
shuvu-H7725 →1056 times
נָ֭אplease
na'H4994 →404 times
אַל־may not
ʾal-H408 →724 times
תְּהִ֣יit be
tehiH1961 →3559 times
עַוְלָ֑הinjustice
ʾavlahH5766 →54 times
וְשׁ֥וּבוּand turn back
veshuviH7725 →1056 times
ע֝וֹדstill
odH5750 →490 times
צִדְקִי־righteousness my
tzidki-H6664 →119 times
בָֽהּ׃[is] in it
vah
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Job 23:10Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
it leads to
- James 1:12
Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
- James 1:2–4
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,
- 1 Peter 1:7
so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
- Psalms 139:1–3
O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
- Zechariah 13:9
This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They…
- James 1:12
Through
Malachi 3:18So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
it leads to
- Matthew 25:46
And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
- Psalms 58:10–11
The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
- Genesis 18:25
Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the…
- Matthew 25:46
Where this verse is studied
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About Job
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Job; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book VIII; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.