Stop assuming my guilt, for I have done no wrong.
Parallel translations
- WEB Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.
- KJV Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
- BSB Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
- NKJV Yield now, let there be no injustice! Yes, concede, my righteousness still stands!
- NASB “Please turn away, let there be no injustice; Turn away, my righteousness is still in it.
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Quick answer
Job urges them to relent, do no injustice, and reconsider, for his cause is righteous. He pleads for a fair hearing and just treatment.
Overview
Job entreats his friends to turn back from their wrongful judgment and recognize that his case is just. He insists he is in the right regarding their accusations of secret sin. His appeal for justice and against false condemnation echoes the cry of the righteous throughout Scripture, ultimately answered in Christ, who secures true vindication for all whose cause is committed to God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Job 17:10But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.
- Job 42:6Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
- Job 23:10But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come out like gold.
- Job 34:5For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
- Mal 3:18Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
- Job 27:4–6surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
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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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