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Job 35:2 KJV
Job · chapter 35 · verse 2
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?Job 35:2 · King James Version
Job 35:2 in context
1Elihu spake moreover, and said,
2Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?
3For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
4I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- righteousnesstsedeqthe rightH6664 →
- Thinkestchâshabproperly, to plait or interpenetrateH2803 →
- saidstʼâmarto sayH559 →
- rightmishpâṭproperly, a verdict pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree divine…H4941 →
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We have here, I. The bad words which Elihu charges upon Job, Job 35:2, Job 35:3. To evince the badness of them he appeals to Job himself, and his own sober thoughts, in the reflection: Thinkest thou this to be right? This intimates Elihu's confidence that the reproof he now gave was just, for he could refer the…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-8