Job 34:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Truly God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

Common English Bible

¹² Surely God doesn’t act wickedly; the Almighty doesn’t distort justice.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² For truly, God will not condemn in vain, nor will the Almighty repudiate judgment.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² For in very deed God will not condemn without cause, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.

Job 34:12 Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”

Job 34:10

“Therefore, hear me, you who have sense; far be it from God that he should do wickedness and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.

Job 36:23

Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, ‘You have done wrong’?

Job 8:3

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?

Psalm 11:7

For the Lord is righteous; he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face.

Psalm 145:17

The Lord is just in all his ways and kind in all his doings.