Parallel Verses

King James Version

I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

New American Standard Bible

“I will fetch my knowledge from afar,
And I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Holman Bible

I will get my knowledge from a distant place
and ascribe justice to my Maker.

International Standard Version

I'll take what I know to its logical conclusion and ascribe righteousness to my Creator,

A Conservative Version

I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my maker.

American Standard Version

I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Amplified


“I will bring my knowledge from afar,
And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Bible in Basic English

I will get my knowledge from far, and I will give righteousness to my Maker.

Darby Translation

I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Creator.

Julia Smith Translation

I will lift up my knowledge from far off, and to him making me, I will give justice.

King James 2000

I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Lexham Expanded Bible

I will bring my knowledge from far away, and I will ascribe righteousness to my maker,

Modern King James verseion

I will bring my knowledge from afar, and I will credit righteousness to my Maker.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I will open unto thee yet more of mine understanding, and prove my maker righteous.

NET Bible

With my knowledge I will speak comprehensively, and to my Creator I will ascribe righteousness.

New Heart English Bible

I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

The Emphasized Bible

I will bring my knowledge from afar, and, to my Maker, will I attribute righteousness.

Webster

I will bring my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

World English Bible

I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Youngs Literal Translation

I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I will fetch
נסה נשׂא 
Nasa' 
Usage: 653

דּע 
Dea` 
Usage: 5

רחק רחוק 
Rachowq 
Usage: 85

and will ascribe
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

References

American

Context Readings

Elihu Extols God's Greatness

2 Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf. 3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. 4 For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Psalm 11:7

For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.

Psalm 145:17

The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

James 1:5

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Revelation 15:3

And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.

Job 8:3

Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

Job 28:12-13

But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

Job 28:20-24

Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

Job 32:2

Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

Job 32:8

But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

Job 34:5

For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

Job 34:10-12

Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

Job 37:23

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.

Proverbs 2:4-5

If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

Daniel 9:7

O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

Daniel 9:14

Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.

Matthew 2:1-2

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

Matthew 12:42

The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

Acts 8:27-40

And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,

Romans 3:25-26

Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

Romans 9:14

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

Romans 10:6-8

But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)

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