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Job 36:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

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Job 28:12‑13,20‑24• ¹²But wisdom, where shall it be found?{HR}And where this, the place of understanding?
¹³No mortal knoweth its price,{HR}Nor is it found in the land of the living.
²⁰And wisdom, whence cometh it,{HR}And where this, the place of understanding?
²¹And further it is hidden from the eyes of all living,{HR}And it is concealed from the birds of the heavens,
²²Destruction and Death have said,{HR}With our ears we have heard its report.
²³God understandeth its way, and he knoweth its place.{HR}For he looketh to the ends of the earth,
²⁴He seeth under the whole heaven.{HR}In making to wind its weight, (Job 28:12‑13,20‑24)

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Job 32:8• ⁸Surely the spirit [it is] in mortal man,{HR}And the breath of Shaddai giveth them wit. (Job 32:8)

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Prov. 2:4‑5• ⁴If thou seek her as silver{HR}And search for her as for hid treasures;
⁵Then shalt thou apprehend the fear of Jehovah,{HR}And find the knowledge of God. (Prov. 2:4‑5)

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Matt. 2:1‑2• ¹{i}Now Jesus having been born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold magi from the east arrived at Jerusalem, saying,{/i}
²{i}Where is the king of the Jews that has been born? for we have seen his star in the east, and have come to do him homage.{/i} (Matt. 2:1‑2)

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Matt. 12:42• ⁴²{i}A queen of [the] south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, more than Solomon [is] here.{/i} (Matt. 12:42)

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Acts 8:27‑40• ²⁷And he arose and went. And behold a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch in power under Candace, queen of [the] Ethiopians, who was over all her treasures, had come to worship at Jerusalem;
²⁸and he was returning and, as he sat in his chariot, was reading the prophet Isaiah.
²⁹And the Spirit said to Philip, Approach and join thyself to this chariot.
³⁰And Philip running up heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
³¹And he said, How can I unless someone shall guide me? And he besought Philip to come up and sit with him.
³²Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this(
³³In his humiliation his judgment was taken away.
³⁴And the eunuch answering Philip said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? Of himself or of some other?
³⁵And Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this scripture, preached to him Jesus.
³⁶And as they went on the way, they came unto a certain water; and the eunuch said, Behold, water; what hindereth me to be baptized?
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³⁸And he commanded the chariot to stop; and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
³⁹But when they came up out of the water, [the] Spirit of [the] Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more, for he went on his way rejoicing.
⁴⁰But Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through he evangelized all the cities till he came to Caesarea. (Acts 8:27‑40)

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Rom. 10:6‑8• ⁶But the righteousness that [is] by faith thus speaketh, “Say not in thine heart, 'Who shall go up into heaven?' that is, to bring Christ down;”
⁷or, “'Who shall go down into the deep?” that is, to bring up Christ from [the] dead:”
⁸but what saith it? “The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart;” that is, the word of faith which we preach: (Rom. 10:6‑8)

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James 1:5,17• ⁵If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all freely and reproacheth not; and it shall be given him.
¹⁷Every good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor shadow of turning. (James 1:5,17)

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James 3:17• ¹⁷But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, uncontentious, impartial. (James 3:17)

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Job 32:2• ²And the anger of Elihu, son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned: against Job his anger burned, because of his justifying himself rather than God; (Job 32:2)

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Job 34:5,10‑12• ⁵For Job hath said, I am righteous,{HR}And God [El] hath turned aside my right:
¹⁰Therefore, hear me, ye men of heart;{HR}Far be it from God [El] to do wickedness,{HR}And [from] Shaddai to do perverseness.
¹¹For the work of man he reporteth to him,{HR}And causeth each to find according to his way.
¹²Yea, verily, God [El] doth not act wickedly,{HR}And Shaddai doth not pervert the right. (Job 34:5,10‑12)

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Deut. 32:4• ⁴{i}He is the Rock{/i}, his doing is perfect:{HR}For all his ways are judgment:{HR}A God of truth without iniquity,{HR}Just and right is he. (Deut. 32:4)

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Psa. 11:7• ⁷For righteous [is] Jehovah; he loveth righteousness;{HR}His face beholdeth the upright. (Psa. 11:7)

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Psa. 145:17• ¹⁷Righteous [is] Jehovah in all his ways,{HR}And gracious in all his works. (Psa. 145:17)

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Jer. 12:1• ¹Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? (Jer. 12:1)

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Dan. 9:7,14• ⁷{i}Thine, O Lord, is the righteousness, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their unfaithfulness in which they have been unfaithful against thee.{/i}
¹⁴{i}And Jehovah hath watched over the evil, and brought it upon us; for Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works which he hath done; and we have not hearkened unto his voice.{/i} (Dan. 9:7,14)

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Rom. 3:25‑26• ²⁵whom God set forth as a propitiatory through faith in his blood, for a declaration of his righteousness on account of the praeter-mission of the sins that had been before, in the forbearance of God,
²⁶with a view to the declaration of his righteousness in the present time, in order to his being just and justifying him that [is] of faith in Jesus. (Rom. 3:25‑26)

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Rom. 9:14• ¹⁴What then shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? Let it not be. (Rom. 9:14)

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Rev. 15:3• ³And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and wonderful {i}are{/i} thy works, O Lord God the Almighty; just and true {i}are{/i} thy ways, thou King of the nations. (Rev. 15:3)

• He will bring near the knowledge of Him who dwelleth afar. (“Job 32-37” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Creatord.

JND Translation Notes

Strictly, "Worker," here.

W. Kelly Translation

I will fetch my knowledge from afar,{HR}And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.