King James Version
Job 34:4 in the King James Version says “Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.” — study this verse from Job chapter 34 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.”
Job 34:4 · KJV
Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. mouth: Heb. palate
Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression. my wound: Heb. mine arrow
KJV Study — Public Domain
“to us judgment”
H4941properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind
“let us know”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“among ourselves what is good”
H2896good (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
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