VERSE STUDY • KJV

Job 34:6

Should I lie against my right? my wound [is] incurable without transgression.

Read it in 5 translations

Should I lie against my right? my wound [is] incurable without transgression.

Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’

Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’

Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.

Against my right do I lie? Mortal is mine arrow—without transgression.’

3 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what [is] good.

5 For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

6 Should I lie against my right? my wound [is] incurable without transgression.

7 What man [is] like Job, [who] drinketh up scorning like water?

8 Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

9 For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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