Job Chapter 34 verse 6 Holy Bible
Notwithstanding my right I am `accounted' a liar; My wound is incurable, `though I am' without transgression.
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Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong.
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Should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable without transgression.
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Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
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Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
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Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'
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Against my right do I lie? Mortal `is' mine arrow -- without transgression.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - Should I lie against my right? This was an essential portion of Job's argument (see Job 27:4). Against the theory of his secret heinous wickedness put forward by his "comforters," he maintained consistently his freedom from conscious deliberate opposition to the will of God, and refused to make the confessions which they suggested or required, on the ground that they would have been untrue - in making them he would have "lied against his right." In this certainly Job "sinned not." But it was essential to the theory of Elihu, no less than to that of Eliphaz and his friends, that Job was suffering on account of past iniquity, whether he were being punished for it in anger or chastised for it in love (see Job 33:17, 27). My wound (literally, my arrow; comp. Job 6:4) is incurable without transgression; i.e. without my having committed any transgression to account for it.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) Should I lie against my right?--Comp. Job 27:2-6.My wound is incurable.--Literally, my arrow, i.e., the arrow which hath wounded me. (See Job 16:11; Job 17:1, &c.)Without transgression.--That is to say, on my part. (See Job 16:17.) Some understand the former clause, "Notwithstanding my right, I am accounted a liar," but the Authorised Version is more probably right.