Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.

New American Standard Bible

“For you have said, ‘My teaching is pure,
And I am innocent in your eyes.’

King James Version

For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

Holman Bible

You have said, “My teaching is sound,
and I am pure in Your sight.”

International Standard Version

You've said, "My teaching is flawless; I'm clean in God's sight.'

A Conservative Version

For thou say, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

American Standard Version

For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in thine eyes.

Amplified


“For you have said, ‘My teaching (doctrine) [that God knowingly afflicts the righteous] is pure,
And I am innocent in your eyes.’

Darby Translation

For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

Julia Smith Translation

And thou wilt say, My instruction is pure, and I was clean in thine eyes.

King James 2000

For you have said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For you say, 'My teaching [is] pure, and I am clean in your sight.'

Modern King James verseion

For you have said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in Your eyes.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Wilt thou say unto God, 'The thing that I take in hand is perfect, and I am clean in thy sight'?

NET Bible

For you have said, 'My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.'

New Heart English Bible

For you say, 'My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.'

The Emphasized Bible

Since thou hast said, Right is my doctrine, and pure am I in his eyes.

Webster

For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thy eyes.

World English Bible

For you say, 'My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.'

Youngs Literal Translation

And thou sayest, 'Pure is my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
לקח 
Leqach 
Usage: 9

is pure
זך 
Zak 
Usage: 11

and I am clean
בּר 
Bar 
Usage: 7

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Zophar's First Response To Job

3 Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame? 4 You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes. 5 But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;


Cross References

Job 10:7

Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?

Job 6:10

So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

Job 6:29-30

Let your minds be changed, and do not have an evil opinion of me; yes, be changed, for my righteousness is still in me.

Job 7:20

If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

Job 9:2-3

Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?

Job 14:4

If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

Job 34:5-6

For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

Job 35:2

Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,

1 Peter 3:15

But give honour to Christ in your hearts as your Lord; and be ready at any time when you are questioned about the hope which is in you, to give an answer in the fear of the Lord and without pride;

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