Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 36:3 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 3. 3I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
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Role in This Section
Job 36:3 advances the thought unit with the words “I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.” Elihu states “I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker” as one poetic claim in Elihu Claims Perfect Knowledge on God's Behalf.
Read It With
- Job 36:1–36:4
Read Job 36:3 with 36:1–36:4. Read alone, “I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Elihu asks for patience, promises knowledge from afar, and declares his words true and his knowledge complete.
Why It Needs Context
Job 36:3 depends on 36:1–36:4; isolating “I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Elihu and “Elihu Claims Perfect Knowledge on God's Behalf.”
Read Job 36:1–4 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 36:1–36:4 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Elihu Claims Perfect Knowledge on God's Behalf.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 1. 1 Elihu also proceeded, and said,
Verse 2. 2 Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf.
Verse 3. 3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
Verse 4. 4 For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
Continue in Context
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Read Job 36:1–36:4 — Elihu Claims Perfect Knowledge on God's BehalfSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 36:1–36:4, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 36:1–36:4
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