For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
Parallel translations
- WEB For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
- KJV For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
- NKJV “For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, But God has taken away my justice;
- NASB “For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, But God has taken away my right;
- NLT For Job also said, ‘I am innocent, but God has taken away my rights.
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Quick answer
God descends in the cloud, stands with Moses, and proclaims His own name, Yahweh. God Himself reveals who He is.
Overview
In answer to Moses' earlier plea to see His glory, God comes down and proclaims His name. The self-revelation of God's name is the unveiling of His character and glory. This shows that we know God truly only as He graciously makes Himself known, supremely in His Son (Hebrews 1:1-3).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- 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 16:17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
- Job 32:1So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
- Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.
- Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
- Job 9:17For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
- Job 11:4You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’
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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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