Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 34:6 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 6. 6Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
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Role in This Section
Job 34:6 advances the thought unit with the words “Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.” Elihu states “Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression” as one poetic claim in Elihu Calls the Wise to Judge Job's Words.
Read It With
- Job 34:1–34:9
Read Job 34:6 with 34:1–34:9. Read alone, “Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Elihu addresses the wise, repeats Job's integrity claim and complaint of a false judgment, then charges Job with scorning and associating with wicked speech.
Why It Needs Context
Job 34:6 depends on 34:1–34:9; isolating “Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Elihu and “Elihu Calls the Wise to Judge Job's Words.”
Read Job 34:1–9 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 34:1–34:9 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Elihu Calls the Wise to Judge Job's Words.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 1. 1 Furthermore Elihu answered and said,
Verse 2. 2 Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
Verse 3. 3 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
Verse 4. 4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.
Verse 5. 5 For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
Verse 6. 6 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
Verse 7. 7 What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Verse 8. 8 Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
Verse 9. 9 For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Continue in Context
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Read Job 34:1–34:9 — Elihu Calls the Wise to Judge Job's WordsSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 34:1–34:9, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
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