Job 34:27
Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:
Job 34:27 in other translations
| BSB | because they turned aside from Him and had no regard for any of His ways. |
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| WEB | because they turned away from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways, |
| ASV | Because they turned aside from following him, And would not have regard in any of his ways: |
| YLT | Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely, |
| DARBY | Because they have turned back from him, and would consider none of his ways; |
| BBE | Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways, |
| Webster | Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways: |
What does Job 34:27 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 34:27-28
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 34:16-30
Elihu appeals directly to Job himself. Could he suppose that God was like those earthly princes, who hate right, who are unfit to rule, and prove the scourges of mankind? It is daring presumption to condemn God's proceedings, as Job had done by his discontents. Elihu suggests divers considerations to Job, to produce in him high thoughts of God, and so to persuade him to submit. Job had often wished to plead his…
Job 34:27 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 34:27
- 1 Samuel 15:11
It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the Lord all night.
- Psalms 28:5
Because they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
- Isaiah 5:12
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
- Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
- Luke 17:31-32
In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. Remember Lot’s wife.
- Acts 15:38
But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.
- Zephaniah 1:6
And them that are turned back from the Lord; and those that have not sought the Lord, nor enquired for him.
- Isaiah 1:3
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
- Psalms 125:5
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
- Haggai 2:15-19
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord: Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty. I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the Lord. Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider it. …
- Psalms 107:43
Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the Lord.
- 2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
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Context
- Job 34:26
He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
- Job 34:27
Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:
- Job 34:28
So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
Job 34:27 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Por cuanto así se apartaron de él, y no consideraron todos sus caminos; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Parce qu’ils se sont retirés de lui, et qu’ils n’ont pas considéré toutes ses voies, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | darum daß sie von seiner Nachfolge abgewichen sind und alle seine Wege nicht bedacht haben, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | qui quasi de industria recesserunt ab eo, et omnes vias ejus intelligere noluerunt: |