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Job Chapter 11 verse 4 Holy Bible

ASV Job 11:4

For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in thine eyes.
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BBE Job 11:4

You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.
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DARBY Job 11:4

For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
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KJV Job 11:4

For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
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WBT Job 11:4

For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thy eyes.
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WEB Job 11:4

For you say, 'My doctrine is pure, I am clean in your eyes.'
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YLT Job 11:4

And thou sayest, `Pure `is' my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure. Job had certainly not said this in so many words. In fact, he had not spoken of his "doctrine" (לקח), nor had he called either his doctrine or his conduct absolutely pure (ז). But, no doubt, he had maintained, in a certain sense, his innocency; not, indeed, his entire freedom from sin or guilt, but his honest endeavour to serve God and lead a good life. This was the real point disputed between him and his "comforters;" they argued, from his sufferings, that he must be a "chief sinner;" he maintained, from the testimony of his conscience, that he was free from all heinous sins. And I am clean in thine eyes (see above, Job 9:30; Job 10:7).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) Clean in thine eyes is variously referred to God, to mortal men (Job 11:3), and to Job himself (Job 32:1). The first seems most to be preferred, for at all events Job had hypothetically spoken of himself as righteous before God (Job 10:15). (Comp. Job 9:30. &c.) Zophar, therefore, who professes superior wisdom, desires that God would show Job how far short he falls of it: that He would show him the hidden things, the secrets of wisdom; for sound wisdom is manifold: it has many aspects, and lies as it were fold over fold in unexpected complexities, defying the shallow and unscrutinising gaze; and were He to do this, Job would find out to his dismay that God still credited him part of the penalty due to him.