In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
Parallel translations
- WEB In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.
- BSB In all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.
- NKJV In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.
- NASB Despite all this, Job did not sin, nor did he blame God.
- NLT In all of this, Job did not sin by blaming God.
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Quick answer
The narrator confirms that Job did not sin or accuse God of wrong. Round one of the test is decisively won.
Overview
This summary verdict vindicates Job against Satan's charge: his faith was not bought by blessing after all. It establishes that genuine grief and worship can coexist without sin. The verse assures readers that faith resting on God Himself can endure even devastating loss, a faith God Himself sustains in His people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Jas 1:12Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
- Job 2:10But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
- 1 Pet 1:7That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
- Rom 9:20Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
- Jas 1:4But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
- Job 34:18–19Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?
- Job 40:4–8Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
- Job 34:10Therefore hearken unto me ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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