Contradictions and Paradoxes in Job 29:14

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Job 29:14 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Job 29:14. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book of Job, when Job talks about putting on righteousness and judgment like clothes and a crown, it means he tried to be good and fair in everything he did. Just like how we wear our favorite clothes, he wanted to always wear goodness and fairness in his actions.

Job 29:14: I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem.

Contradiction with Job 31:6

Job asks to be weighed in an even balance, suggesting his righteousness can be measured, unlike Job 29:14 where he claims inherent righteousness and judgment.

Job 31:6: Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. [Let...: Heb. Let him weigh me in balances of justice]

Contradiction with Isaiah 64:6

Claims all righteousness is as filthy rags, contradicting Job's claiming righteousness as a garment.

Isaiah 64:6: But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Contradiction with Romans 3:10

States there is none righteous, no, not one, which contradicts Job’s declaration of personal righteousness.

Romans 3:10: As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 7:20

Asserts no man on earth is wholly righteous, contradicting Job’s claim of wearing righteousness.

Ecclesiastes 7:20: For [there is] not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Contradiction with Romans 3:23

States all have sinned, which conflicts with Job’s declaration of inherent righteousness.

Romans 3:23: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Contradiction with Proverbs 20:9

Questions who can say they have made their heart pure, contradicting Job's assertion of personal purity through righteousness.

Proverbs 20:9: Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Contradiction with 1 John 1:8

Claims if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, which contradicts Job’s claim of personal righteousness.

1 John 1:8: If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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