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Job 6:29

Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.

KJV

Respondete, obsecro, absque contentione ; et loquentes id quod justum est, judicate.

Vulgate

καθίσατε δὴ καὶ μὴ εἴη ἄδικον, καὶ πάλιν τῷ δικαίῳ συνέρχεσθε.

LXX

Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.

ASV

שֻֽׁבוּ נָ֭א אַל תְּהִ֣י עַוְלָ֑ה ו/שבי וְ/שׁ֥וּבוּ ע֝וֹד צִדְקִ/י בָֽ/הּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַל
'l
preposition · 720×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
נָ֣א
n'
particle · 403×
ע֖וֹד
'vd
adverb · 485×
עַוְלָֽה
'vlh
noun · 52×
צֶ֑דֶק
tsdq
noun · 116×
שׁ֣וּב
shvb
verb · 1058×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Eccl 4:1 — So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was
  • Job 17:10 — But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
  • Job 17:10 — But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
  • Mal 3:18 — Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
  • Zech 1:6 — But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according