The Meaning of Job 34:6 Explained

Job 34:6

KJV: Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.

YLT: Against my right do I lie? Mortal is mine arrow -- without transgression.'

Darby: Should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable without transgression.

ASV: Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Should I lie  against my right?  my wound  [is] incurable  without transgression. 

What does Job 34:6 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 34:1-37 - The Almighty Must Be Just
Elihu stands in Job 34:10 as God's apologist. God's absolute and impartial justice is at all times a matter of untold comfort. There will be no cause of ultimate complaint, but from the lips of the holiest beings in the universe, most able to pass an opinion, the cry will ascend, "Great and marvelous are thy works, O Lord God the Almighty. Righteous and true are thy ways, thou King of the ages"¦. Thy righteous acts have been made manifest," Revelation 15:3-4, r.v.
Ponder those last words. God's righteous acts have not yet been made manifest; it is therefore foolish and wrong to pass judgment upon an unfinished program. Wait, mortal man, until, at the great white throne, God shall unfold His inner reasons. If it is not fit to say to a king, "Thou art vile," how much less to Him who lives through the ages, while the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away without hand! [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 34

1  Elihu accuses Job for charging God with injustice
10  God omnipotent cannot be unjust
31  Man must humble himself unto God
34  Elihu reproves Job

What do the individual words in Job 34:6 mean?

Concerning my right Should I lie [is] incurable My wound [though I am] without transgression
עַל־ ؟ מִשְׁפָּטִ֥י אֲכַזֵּ֑ב אָנ֖וּשׁ חִצִּ֣י בְלִי־ פָֽשַׁע

עַל־  Concerning 
Parse: Preposition
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
؟ מִשְׁפָּטִ֥י  my  right 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: מִשְׁפָּט  
Sense: judgment, justice, ordinance.
אֲכַזֵּ֑ב  Should  I  lie 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Imperfect, first person common singular
Root: כָּזַב  
Sense: to lie, tell a lie, be a liar, be found a liar, be in vain, fail.
אָנ֖וּשׁ  [is]  incurable 
Parse: Verb, Qal, QalPassParticiple, masculine singular
Root: אָנוּשׁ 
Sense: to be weak, sick, frail.
חִצִּ֣י  My  wound 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: חֵץ  
Sense: arrow.
בְלִי־  [though  I  am]  without 
Parse: Adverb
Root: בְּלִי 
Sense: wearing out adv of negation.
פָֽשַׁע  transgression 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: פֶּשַׁע  
Sense: transgression, rebellion.

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