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Job 34:5

Job 34:5 is verse 5 of Job chapter 34, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.

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

For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right.

Job 34:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

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?

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