Bible verse
For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
Job 34:5 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 34.
1 Then Elihu continued:
2 “Hear my words, O wise men; give ear to me, O men of learning.
3 For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
4 Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.
5 For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
6 Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
7 What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
8 He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.
9 For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
KJV
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
ASV
For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:
ERV
For Job hath said, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my right:
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