Bible Strands
Job 34:5
For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Elihu addresses Job and his companions, summarizing Job’s own declaration that he maintains innocence while experiencing unmerited suffering.
The words — צָדַ֑קְתִּי (tza.Dak.ti) translates literally as “I am righteous,” and הֵסִ֥יר (he.Sir) means “he has taken away,” directly framing the complaint that divine justice has been removed.
The thread — This pattern of asserting moral purity while lamenting lost vindication appears in Job 27:2, Job 33:9, and Job 16:17.
Why it lands — The text demands readers examine the friction between claimed innocence and perceived divine injustice, requiring clear-eyed engagement with suffering rather than quick theological resolution.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
Cross-references
- Job 27:2 “As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice—the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—
- Job 33:9 ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
- Job 16:17 yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
- Job 32:1 So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
- Job 9:17 For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
- Job 10:7 though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
- Job 11:4 You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’
- Job 29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.