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Job 34:3-5
New English Translation
Job 34:3-5
New English Translation
3 For the ear assesses[a] words
as the mouth[b] tastes food.
4 Let us evaluate[c] for ourselves what is right;[d]
let us come to know among ourselves what is good.
5 For Job says, ‘I am innocent,[e]
but God turns away my right.
Footnotes
- Job 34:3 tn Or “examines; tests; tries; discerns.”
- Job 34:3 tn Or “palate”; the Hebrew term refers to the tongue or to the mouth in general.
- Job 34:4 sn Elihu means “choose after careful examination.”
- Job 34:4 tn The word is מִשְׁפָּט (mishpat) again, with the sense of what is right or just.
- Job 34:5 tn Heb “righteous,” but in this context it means to be innocent or in the right.
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