Job 34:4

4 So let us discern for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.

Job 34:4 Meaning and Commentary

Job 34:4

Let us choose to us judgments
Take the part of the question or controversy in which truth and justice lie, and he doubtless has respect to the present controversy with Job;

let us know among ourselves what [is] good;
agree upon that which is best to be done in the present case, what judgment to be made of the dealings of God with Job, and his behaviour under them, and what the best advice to give to him.

Job 34:4 In-Context

2 “Listen to me, you wise men. Pay attention, you who have knowledge.
3 Job said, ‘The ear tests the words it hears just as the mouth distinguishes between foods.’
4 So let us discern for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.
5 For Job also said, ‘I am innocent, but God has taken away my rights.
6 I am innocent, but they call me a liar. My suffering is incurable, though I have not sinned.’
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