Translations
Modern
Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
Traditional
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Literal
Turn, please, let there not be injustice; and turn even now—my righteousness is in it.
Latin
Respondete, obsecro, absque contentione; et loquentes id quod justum est, judicate.
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English
Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
Notes
Job responds by criticizing his counselors and questioning God (chapters 6 and 7). He explains his intense words by indicating his deep "grief" or "anguish" (6:2–3; 7:11). Job states that Eliphaz has not provided comfort or sympathy as a friend. Instead, Eliphaz chose to argue about out of date religious or theological ideas.
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