Job 40:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Will you also annul (set aside and render void) My judgment? Will you condemn Me [your God], that you may [appear] righteous and justified?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?

Common English Bible

⁸ Would you question my justice, deem me guilty so you can be innocent?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Hide them in the dust together and plunge their faces into the pit.

Job 40:8 Cross References

Romans 3:4

By no means! Although every human is a liar, let God be proved true, as it is written, “So that you may be justified in your words and you will prevail when you go to trial.”

Isaiah 28:18

Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it.

Job 32:2

Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became angry. He was angry at Job because he justified himself rather than God;

Job 10:3

Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?

Hebrews 7:18

There is, on the one hand, the abrogation of an earlier commandment because it was weak and ineffectual

Galatians 3:17

My point is this: the law, which came four hundred thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.

Galatians 3:15

Brothers and sisters, I give an example from daily life: once a person’s will has been ratified, no one adds to it or annuls it.

Isaiah 14:27

For the Lord of hosts has planned, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?

Psalm 51:4

Against you, you alone, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgment.

Job 10:7

although you know that I am not guilty, and there is no one to deliver out of your hand?

Job 13:18

I have indeed prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated.

Job 16:11

God gives me up to the evil and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

Job 19:6

know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net around me.

Job 34:17

Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn one who is righteous and mighty,

Isaiah 45:9

Woe to those who strive with their Maker, earthen vessels with the potter! Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, “What are you making”? or “Your work has no handles”?

Job 32:1

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Isaiah 43:26

Accuse me; let us go to trial; set forth your case, so that you may be proved right.