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Job 34:4

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Let us choose for ourselves what is right; Let us know among ourselves what is good.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what [is] good.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Let us choose for us that which is right: let us know among ourselves what is good.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is good.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what [is] good.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good!
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— What is right, let us choose for ourselves, Let us know, among ourselves, what is good;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what [is] good.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Let us choose to us judgment, and let us see among ourselves what is the best.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Let vs seeke iudgement among vs, and let vs knowe among our selues what is good.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Let vs chuse to vs iudgement: let vs know among our selues what is good.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Let us choose for us a judge; let him know among ourselves what is good.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Let us choose judgment to ourselves: let us know amount ourselves what is right.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what [is] good.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Let us choose 977
{0977} Prime
בָּחַר
bachar
{baw-khar'}
A primitive root; properly to try, that is, (by implication) select.
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
to us judgment: 4941
{4941} Prime
מִשְׁפָּט
mishpat
{mish-pawt'}
From H8199; properly a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (particularly) divine law, individual or collectively), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly justice, including a particular right, or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style.
let us know 3045
{3045} Prime
ידע
yada`
{yaw-dah'}
A primitive root; to know (properly to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively instruction, designation, punishment, etc.).
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
among x996
(0996) Complement
בַּיִן
beyn
{bane}
(Sometimes in the plural masculine or feminine); properly the constructively contracted form of an otherwise unused noun from H0995; a distinction; but used only as a preposition, between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjugation, either... or.
ourselves what x4100
(4100) Complement
מָּה
mah
{maw}
A primitive particle; properly interrogitive what? (including how?, why? and when?); but also exclamations like what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational senses.
[is] good. 2896
{2896} Prime
טוֹב
towb
{tobe}
From H2895; good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Job 34:4

_ _ judgment — Let us select among the conflicting sentiments advanced, what will stand the test of examination.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Job 34:1-9.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 34:4

Let us — Not contend for victory, but for truth and equity. Know — Let us shew one another who hath the best cause.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Job 34:4

Let us choose to us (b) judgment: let us know among ourselves what [is] good.

(b) Let us examine the matter uprightly.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
choose:

Job 34:36 My desire [is that] Job may be tried unto the end because of [his] answers for wicked men.
Judges 19:30 And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak [your minds].
Judges 20:7 Behold, ye [are] all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.
1 Corinthians 6:2-5 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? ... I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
Galatians 2:11-14 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. ... But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before [them] all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
1 Thessalonians 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

know:

Isaiah 11:2-5 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; ... And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
John 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Jg 19:30; 20:7. Jb 34:36. Is 11:2. Jn 7:24. Ro 12:2. 1Co 6:2. Ga 2:11. 1Th 5:21.

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