◄ Job 34:6 ►
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Good News Translation
He asks, "How could I lie and say I am wrong? I am fatally wounded, but I am sinless."

New Revised Standard Version
in spite of being right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’

Contemporary English Version
Job also argues that God considers him a liar and that he is suffering severely in spite of his innocence.

New American Bible
I declare the judgment on me to be a lie; my arrow-wound is incurable, sinless though I am.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
For in judging me there is a lie: my arrow is violent without any sin.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For in judging me there is a lie: my arrow is violent without any sin.

I

Job 27:4-6 My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying. . . .

wound.

Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.

Job 16:13 He hath compassed me round about with his lances, he hath wounded my loins, he hath not spared, and hath poured out my bowels on the earth,

Context
Elihu Confirms God's Justice
…5For Job hath said: I am just, and God hath overthrown my judgment. 6For in judging me there is a lie: my arrow is violent without any sin.7What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?…
Cross References
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.

Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as to refuse to be healed? it is become to me as the falsehood of deceitful waters that cannot be trusted.

Job 34:5
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