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Job is the most penetrating treatment of suffering, divine justice, and epistemological humility in the Hebrew Bible. Its probable date is pre-Mosaic (patriarchal setting), making it one of the oldest compositions in Scripture.
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- Primary Witness Text: Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words. Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth. My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly. The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up. Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay. Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee. Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying, I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me. Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy, He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths. Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man. Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters. For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pa...
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Job is the most penetrating treatment of suffering, divine justice, and epistemological humility in the Hebrew Bible. Its probable date is pre-Mosaic (patriarchal setting), making it one of the oldest compositions in Scripture.
Job's friends represent the dominant ancient Near Eastern theodicy: suffering = sin. God's answer from the whirlwind (chs. 38-41) does not explain the suffering but confronts Job with the staggering scale and wisdom of the creation — demanding the creature's epistemological humility before the Creator. Job 19:25-27 ("I know that my Redeemer lives") stands as the OT's most personal resurrection confession.
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Job 33:1
Hebrew
וְֽאוּלָם שְׁמַֽע־נָא אִיּוֹב מִלָּי וְֽכָל־דְּבָרַי הַאֲזִֽינָה׃ve'vlam-shema'-na'-'iyvov-milay-vekhal-devaray-ha'aziynah
KJV: Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
AKJV: Why, Job, I pray you, hear my speeches, and listen to all my words.
ASV: Howbeit, Job, I pray thee, hear my speech,
YLT: And yet, I pray thee, O Job, Hear my speech and to all my words give ear.
Exposition: Job 33:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:2
Hebrew
הִנֵּה־נָא פָּתַחְתִּי פִי דִּבְּרָה לְשׁוֹנִי בְחִכִּֽי׃hineh-na'-fatachetiy-fiy-diverah-leshvoniy-vechikhiy
KJV: Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.
AKJV: Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue has spoken in my mouth.
ASV: Behold now, I have opened my mouth;
YLT: Lo, I pray thee, I have opened my mouth, My tongue hath spoken in the palate.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Job 33:2Generated editorial synthesis
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Job 33:2
Job 33:2 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Job 33:2
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- Job 33:2
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Behold
Exposition: Job 33:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:3
Hebrew
יֹֽשֶׁר־לִבִּי אֲמָרָי וְדַעַת שְׂפָתַי בָּרוּר מִלֵּֽלוּ׃yosher-liviy-'amaray-veda'at-shefatay-varvr-milelv
KJV: My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
AKJV: My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
ASV: My wordsshall utterthe uprightness of my heart;
YLT: Of the uprightness of my heart are my sayings, And knowledge have my lips clearly spoken.
Commentary WitnessJob 33:3Quoted commentary witness
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Job 33:3
Verse 3 My words shall be of the uprightness - As God has given me his Spirit, from that Spirit alone will I speak; therefore all my words shall be of uprightness, knowledge, and truth. Knowledge clearly - דעת ברור daath barur, pure science. I shall lay down no false positions, and I shall have no false consequences.
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Job 33:3
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Exposition: Job 33:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:4
Hebrew
רֽוּחַ־אֵל עָשָׂתְנִי וְנִשְׁמַת שַׁדַּי תְּחַיֵּֽנִי׃rvcha-'el-'ashateniy-venishemat-shaday-techayeniy
KJV: The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
AKJV: The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty has given me life.
ASV: The Spirit of God hath made me,
YLT: The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Mighty doth quicken me.
Commentary WitnessJob 33:4Quoted commentary witness
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Job 33:4
Verse 4 The Spirit of God hath made me - Another plain allusion to the account of the creation of man, Gen 2:7, as the words נשמת nishmath, the breath or breathing of God, and תחיני techaiyeni, hath given me life, prove: "He breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives, and he became a living soul."
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Job 33:4
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- Gen 2:7
Exposition: Job 33:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:5
Hebrew
אִם־תּוּכַל הֲשִׁיבֵנִי עֶרְכָה לְפָנַי הִתְיַצָּֽבָה׃'im-tvkhal-hashiyveniy-'erekhah-lefanay-hiteyatzavah
KJV: If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
AKJV: If you can answer me, set your words in order before me, stand up.
ASV: If thou canst, answer thou me;
YLT: If thou art able--answer me, Set in array before me--station thyself.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Job 33:5Generated editorial synthesis
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Job 33:5
Job 33:5 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
Provenance. Rendered as an editorial synthesis tied to the canonical verse context and current chapter source.
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Job 33:5
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- Job 33:5
Exposition: Job 33:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:6
Hebrew
הֵן־אֲנִי כְפִיךָ לָאֵל מֵחֹמֶר קֹרַצְתִּי גַם־אָֽנִי׃hen-'aniy-khefiykha-la'el-mechomer-qoratzetiy-gam-'aniy
KJV: Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
AKJV: Behold, I am according to your wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
ASV: Behold, I am toward God even as thou art:
YLT: Lo, I am , according to thy word, for God, From the clay I--I also, have been formed.
Commentary WitnessJob 33:6Quoted commentary witness
Commentary Witness
Job 33:6
Verse 6 I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay - Mr. Good, and before him none other that I have seen, has most probably hit the true meaning: - "Behold, I am thy fellow. I too was formed by God out of the clay." The word כפיך kephicha, which we translate according to thy wish, and which, if Hebrew, would mean like to thy mouth; he considers as pure Arabic, with a Hebrew postfix, (Arabic) kefoo, signifying fellow, equal, like. Taken in this way, the passage is very plain, only לאל lael, by or through God, must be added to the last clause of the verse instead of the first, as Mr. Good has properly done.
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Job 33:6
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- Mr
- Good
- Behold
- Arabic
Exposition: Job 33:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:7
Hebrew
הִנֵּה אֵמָתִי לֹא תְבַעֲתֶךָּ וְאַכְפִּי עָלֶיךָ לֹא־יִכְבָּֽד׃hineh-'ematiy-lo'-teva'atekha-ve'akhefiy-'aleykha-lo'-yikhevad
KJV: Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.
AKJV: Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy on you.
ASV: Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid,
YLT: Lo, my terror doth not frighten thee, And my burden on thee is not heavy.
Commentary WitnessJob 33:7Quoted commentary witness
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Job 33:7
Verse 7 My terror shall not make thee afraid - This is an allusion to what Job had said, Job 9:34 : "Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me." Being thy equal, no fear can impose upon thee so far as to overawe thee; so that thou shouldst not be able to conduct thy own defense. We are on equal terms; now prepare to defend thyself.
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Job 33:7
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- Job 9:34
Exposition: Job 33:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:8
Hebrew
אַךְ אָמַרְתָּ בְאָזְנָי וְקוֹל מִלִּין אֶשְׁמָֽע׃'akhe-'amareta-ve'azenay-veqvol-miliyn-'eshema'
KJV: Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,
AKJV: Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
ASV: Surely thou hast spoken in my hearing,
YLT: Surely--thou hast said in mine ears, And the sounds of words I hear:
Commentary WitnessJob 33:8Quoted commentary witness
Commentary Witness
Job 33:8
Verse 8 Surely thou hast spoken - What Elihu speaks here, and in the three following verses, contains, in general, simple quotations from Job's own words, or the obvious sense of them, as the reader may see by referring to Job 13:27 (note); Job 14:16 (note), and Job 31:4 (note), and also to the notes on those passages.
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Canonical locus
Job 33:8
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 13:27
- Job 14:16
- Job 31:4
Exposition: Job 33:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:9
Hebrew
זַךְ אֲנִי בְּֽלִי פָשַׁע חַף אָנֹכִי וְלֹא עָוֺן לִֽי׃zakhe-'aniy-veliy-fasha'-chaf-'anokhiy-velo'-'avn-liy
KJV: I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
AKJV: I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
ASV: I am clean, without transgression;
YLT: `Pure am I, without transgression, Innocent am I, and I have no iniquity.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Job 33:9Generated editorial synthesis
Commentary Witness (Generated)
Job 33:9
Job 33:9 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
Provenance. Rendered as an editorial synthesis tied to the canonical verse context and current chapter source.
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Job 33:9
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 33:9
Exposition: Job 33:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:10
Hebrew
הֵן תְּנוּאוֹת עָלַי יִמְצָא יַחְשְׁבֵנִי לְאוֹיֵב לֽוֹ׃hen-tenv'vot-'alay-yimetza'-yachesheveniy-le'voyev-lvo
KJV: Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,
AKJV: Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me for his enemy,
ASV: Behold, he findeth occasions against me,
YLT: Lo, occasions against me He doth find, He doth reckon me for an enemy to Him,
Commentary Witness (Generated)Job 33:10Generated editorial synthesis
Commentary Witness (Generated)
Job 33:10
Job 33:10 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
Provenance. Rendered as an editorial synthesis tied to the canonical verse context and current chapter source.
Canonical locus
Job 33:10
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 33:10
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Behold
Exposition: Job 33:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:11
Hebrew
יָשֵׂם בַּסַּד רַגְלָי יִשְׁמֹר כָּל־אָרְחֹתָֽי׃yashem-vasad-ragelay-yishemor-khal-'arechotay
KJV: He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
AKJV: He puts my feet in the stocks, he marks all my paths.
ASV: He putteth my feet in the stocks,
YLT: He doth put in the stocks my feet, He doth watch all my paths.'
Commentary Witness (Generated)Job 33:11Generated editorial synthesis
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Job 33:11
Job 33:11 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
Provenance. Rendered as an editorial synthesis tied to the canonical verse context and current chapter source.
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Job 33:11
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- Job 33:11
Exposition: Job 33:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:12
Hebrew
הֶן־זֹאת לֹא־צָדַקְתָּ אֶעֱנֶךָּ כִּֽי־יִרְבֶּה אֱלוֹהַ מֵאֱנֽוֹשׁ׃hen-zo't-lo'-tzadaqeta-'e'enekha-khiy-yireveh-'elvoha-me'envosh
KJV: Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.
AKJV: Behold, in this you are not just: I will answer you, that God is greater than man.
ASV: Behold, I will answer thee, in this thou art not just;
YLT: Lo, in this thou hast not been righteous, I answer thee, that greater is God than man.
Commentary WitnessJob 33:12Quoted commentary witness
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Job 33:12
Verse 12 In this thou art not just - Thou hast laid charges against God's dealings, but thou hast not been able to justify those charges; and were there nothing else against thee, these irreverent speeches are so many proofs that thou art not clear in the sight of God.
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Job 33:12
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Exposition: Job 33:12 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:13
Hebrew
מַדּוּעַ אֵלָיו רִיבוֹתָ כִּי כָל־דְּבָרָיו לֹא־יַעֲנֶֽה׃madv'a-'elayv-riyvvota-khiy-khal-devarayv-lo'-ya'aneh
KJV: Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
AKJV: Why do you strive against him? for he gives not account of any of his matters.
ASV: Why dost thou strive against him,
YLT: Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When for all His matters He answereth not?
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Verse 13 Why dost thou strive against him? - Is it not useless to contend with God? Can he do any thing that is not right? As to his giving thee any account of the reasons why he deals thus and thus with thee, or any one else, thou needest not expect it; he is sovereign, and is not to be called to the bar of his creatures. It is sufficient for thee to know that "he is too wise to err, and too good to be unkind."
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Exposition: Job 33:13 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:14
Hebrew
כִּֽי־בְאַחַת יְדַבֶּר־אֵל וּבִשְׁתַּיִם לֹא יְשׁוּרֶֽנָּה׃khiy-ve'achat-yedaver-'el-vvishetayim-lo'-yeshvrenah
KJV: For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.
AKJV: For God speaks once, yes twice, yet man perceives it not.
ASV: For God speaketh once,
YLT: For once doth God speak, and twice, (He doth not behold it.)
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Verse 14 For God speaketh once - Though he will not be summoned to the bar of his creatures, nor condescend to detail the reasons of his conduct, which they could not comprehend, yet he so acts, in the main, that the operation of his hand and the designs of his counsel may sufficiently appear, provided men had their eyes open upon his ways, and their hearts open to receive his influence. Elihu, having made the general statement that God would not come to the bar of his creatures to give account of his conduct, shows the general means which he uses to bring men to an acquaintance with themselves and with him: he states these in the six following particulars, which may be collected from Job 33:15-24.
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Job 33:14
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- Job 33:15-24
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- Ovid
- Elihu
Exposition: Job 33:14 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:15
Hebrew
בַּחֲלוֹם ׀ חֶזְיוֹן לַיְלָה בִּנְפֹל תַּרְדֵּמָה עַל־אֲנָשִׁים בִּתְנוּמוֹת עֲלֵי מִשְׁכָּֽב׃vachalvom- -chezeyvon-layelah-vinefol-taredemah-'al-'anashiym-vitenvmvot-'aley-mishekhav
KJV: In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
AKJV: In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumberings on the bed;
ASV: In a dream, in a vision of the night,
YLT: In a dream--a vision of night, In the falling of deep sleep on men, In slumberings on a bed.
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Verse 15 I. In a Dream In a Dream - when deep sleep falleth upon men - Many, by such means, have had the most salutary warnings; and to decry all such, because there are many vain dreams, would be nearly as much wisdom as to deny the Bible, because there are many foolish books, the authors of which supposed they were under a Divine influence while composing them. II. In a Vision In a Vision of the night - in slumberings upon the bed - Visions or images presented in the imagination during slumber, when men are betwixt sleeping and waking, or when, awake and in bed, they are wrapt up in deep contemplation, the darkness of the night having shut out all objects from their sight, so that the mind is not diverted by images of earthly things impressed on the senses. Many warnings in this way have come from God; and the impression they made, and the good effect they produced, were the proofs of their Divine origin. To deny this would be to call into doubt the testimony of the best, wisest, and holiest men in all ages of the Church. Of one of these visions we have a remarkable account in this book, Job 4:12-21. And this vision seems to have taken place in the night season, when Eliphaz awoke from a deep sleep. There is this difference between the accidents of the dream and the vision: the former takes place when deep sleep falleth upon men; the latter, in the night, in or after slumberings upon the bed.
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Job 33:15
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- Job 4:12-21
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- Bible
- Church
Exposition: Job 33:15 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:16
Hebrew
אָז יִגְלֶה אֹזֶן אֲנָשִׁים וּבְמֹסָרָם יַחְתֹּֽם׃'az-yigeleh-'ozen-'anashiym-vvemosaram-yachetom
KJV: Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,
AKJV: Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
ASV: Then he openeth the ears of men,
YLT: Then He uncovereth the ear of men, And for their instruction sealeth:
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Verse 16 III. By secret Inspirations Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth, etc. - A dream or a vision simply considered is likely to do no good; it is the opening of the understanding, and the pouring in of the light, that make men wise to salvation. Serious alarms, holy purposes, penitential pangs for past sins, apprehension of death and judgment, discoveries of God's justice, of Christ's love, of the world's vanity, of heaven's excellence, etc., etc., etc., are often used by the Divine Spirit to withdraw men from their evil purpose, and to hide pride from man, Job 33:17; and of all these openings of the ear of the heart, and sealing instructions upon the conscience, we have numerous examples in the history of the Church, in the experience of good men, and even in the civil and providential history of all nations.
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Job 33:16
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- Job 33:17
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- Ovid
- Church
Exposition: Job 33:16 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:17
Hebrew
לְהָסִיר אָדָם מַעֲשֶׂה וְגֵוָה מִגֶּבֶר יְכַסֶּֽה׃lehasiyr-'adam-ma'asheh-vegevah-migever-yekhaseh
KJV: That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
AKJV: That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
ASV: That he may withdraw man from his purpose,
YLT: To turn aside man from doing, And pride from man He concealeth.
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Job 33:17 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Job 33:17
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- Job 33:17
Exposition: Job 33:17 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:18
Hebrew
יַחְשֹׂךְ נַפְשׁוֹ מִנִּי־שָׁחַת וְחַיָּתוֹ מֵעֲבֹר בַּשָּֽׁלַח׃yacheshokhe-nafeshvo-miniy-shachat-vechayatvo-me'avor-vashalach
KJV: He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
AKJV: He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
ASV: He keepeth back his soul from the pit,
YLT: He keepeth back his soul from corruption, And his life from passing away by a dart.
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Verse 18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit - By the above means, how many have been snatched from an untimely death! By taking the warning thus given, some have been prevented from perishing by the pit - some sudden accident; and others from the sword of the assassin or nocturnal murderer. It would be easy to give examples, in all these kinds; but the knowledge of the reader may save this trouble to the commentator.
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Job 33:18
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Exposition: Job 33:18 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:19
Hebrew
וְהוּכַח בְּמַכְאוֹב עַל־מִשְׁכָּבוֹ וריב וְרוֹב עֲצָמָיו אֵתָֽן׃vehvkhach-vemakhe'vov-'al-mishekhavvo-vryv-vervov-'atzamayv-'etan
KJV: He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
AKJV: He is chastened also with pain on his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
ASV: He is chastened also with pain upon his bed,
YLT: And he hath been reproved With pain on his bed, And the strife of his bones is enduring.
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Verse 19 IV. By Afflictions He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, etc. - Afflictions are a fourth means which God makes use of to awaken and convert sinners. In the hand of God these were the cause of the salvation of David, as himself testifies: Before I was afflicted, I went astray, Psa 119:67, Psa 119:71, Psa 119:75. The multitude of his bones - By such diseases, especially those of a rheumatic kind, when to the patient's apprehension every bone is diseased, broken, or out of joint. Some render the passage, When the multitude of his bones is yet strong; meaning those sudden afflictions which fall upon men when in a state of great firmness and vigor. The original, ורוב עצמיו אתן verob atsamaiv ethan, may be translated, And the strong multitude of his bones. Even the strong multitude of his bones is chastened with pain upon his bed; the place of rest and ease affording him no peace, quiet, or comfort. The bones may be well termed multitudinous, as there are no less than 10 in the cranium, or skull; upper jaw, 13; lower jaw, 1; teeth, 32; tongue, 1; vertebrae, or back-bone, 24; ribs, 24; sternum, or breast-bone, 3; os innominatum, 1; scapula, or shoulder-blades, 2; arms, 6; hands, 54; thigh-bones, 2; knee-bones, 2; legs, 4; feet, 54: in all, not less than 233 bones, without reckoning the ossa sethamoides; because, though often numerous, they are found only in hard laborers, or elderly persons.
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Job 33:19
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- Ray
- David
Exposition: Job 33:19 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:20
Hebrew
וְזִֽהֲמַתּוּ חַיָּתוֹ לָחֶם וְנַפְשׁוֹ מַאֲכַל תַּאֲוָֽה׃vezihamatv-chayatvo-lachem-venafeshvo-ma'akhal-ta'avah
KJV: So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
AKJV: So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty meat.
ASV: So that his life abhorreth bread,
YLT: And his life hath nauseated bread, And his soul desirable food.
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Verse 20 His life abhorreth bread - These expressions strongly and naturally point out that general nausea, or loathing which sick persons feel in almost every species of disorder.
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Exposition: Job 33:20 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:21
Hebrew
יִכֶל בְּשָׂרוֹ מֵרֹאִי ושפי וְשֻׁפּוּ עַצְמוֹתָיו לֹא רֻאּֽוּ׃yikhel-vesharvo-mero'iy-vshfy-veshufv-'atzemvotayv-lo'-ru'v
KJV: His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
AKJV: His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
ASV: His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen;
YLT: His flesh is consumed from being seen, And high are his bones, they were not seen!
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Job 33:21 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Job 33:21
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- Job 33:21
Exposition: Job 33:21 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:22
Hebrew
וַתִּקְרַב לַשַּׁחַת נַפְשׁוֹ וְחַיָּתוֹ לַֽמְמִתִֽים׃vatiqerav-lashachat-nafeshvo-vechayatvo-lamemitiym
KJV: Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
AKJV: Yes, his soul draws near to the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
ASV: Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit,
YLT: And draw near to the pit doth his soul, And his life to those causing death.
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Verse 22 His soul draweth near unto the grave - נפש nephesh, soul, is here taken for the immortal spirit, as it is distinguished from חיה chaiyah, the animal life. The former draws near to the pit, שחת shachath, corruption; perhaps he meant dissipation, considering it merely as the breath. The latter draws near לממתים lamemithim, to the dead; i.e., to those who are already buried. Mr. Good translates it the Destinies; and supposes the same is meant among the Hebrews by the Memithim, as among the Greeks by their Μοιραι; the Latins, by their Parcae; the Goths, by their Fatal Sisters; the Scandinavians, by their goddess Hela; and the Arabians, by Azrael, or the angel of death. I think, however, the signification given above is more natural.
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Job 33:22
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- Mr
- Destinies
- Memithim
- Latins
- Parcae
- Goths
- Fatal Sisters
- Scandinavians
- Hela
- Arabians
- Azrael
Exposition: Job 33:22 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:23
Hebrew
אִם־יֵשׁ עָלָיו ׀ מַלְאָךְ מֵלִיץ אֶחָד מִנִּי־אָלֶף לְהַגִּיד לְאָדָם יָשְׁרֽוֹ׃'im-yesh-'alayv- -male'akhe-meliytz-'echad-miniy-'alef-lehagiyd-le'adam-yashervo
KJV: If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
AKJV: If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man his uprightness:
ASV: If there be with him an angel,
YLT: If there is by him a messenger, An interpreter--one of a thousand, To declare for man his uprightness:
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Verse 23 V. The Messengers If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, etc. - The Messengers of righteousness; this is a Fifth method, אם יש עליו מלאך מליץ im yesh alaiv malach melits, "If there be over him an interpreting or mediatorial angel or messenger." One among a thousand, אחד מני אלף echad minni aleph. "One from the Chief, Head, or Teacher." To show unto man his uprightness - להגיד לאדם ישרו lehaggid leadam yoshro, "to manifest or cause to be declared to man his righteousness:" to show unto Adam - men in general, the descendants of the first man - his purity and holiness; to convince him of sin, righteousness, and judgment, that he may be prepared for the discovery of what is next to be exhibited.
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Job 33:23
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- Chief
- Head
- Teacher
Exposition: Job 33:23 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:24
Hebrew
וַיְחֻנֶּנּוּ וַיֹּאמֶר פְּדָעֵהוּ מֵרֶדֶת שָׁחַת מָצָאתִי כֹֽפֶר׃vayechunenv-vayo'mer-feda'ehv-meredet-shachat-matza'tiy-khofer
KJV: Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
AKJV: Then he is gracious to him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
ASV: ThenGodis gracious unto him, and saith,
YLT: Then He doth favour him and saith, `Ransom him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement.'
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Job 33:24
Verse 24 Then he is gracious unto him - He exercises mercy towards fallen man, and gives command for his respite and pardon. Deliver him from going down to the pit - Let him who is thus instructed, penitent, and afflicted, and comes to me, find a pardon; for: - VI. By an Atonement I have found a ransom - כפר copher, an atonement. Pay a ransom for him, פדעהו pedaehu, that he may not go down to the pit - to corruption or destruction, for I have found out an atonement. It is this that gives efficacy to all the preceding means; without which they would be useless, and the salvation of man impossible. I must think that the redemption of a lost world, by Jesus Christ, is not obscurely signified in Job 33:23, Job 33:24. While the whole world lay in the wicked one, and were all hastening to the bottomless pit, God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him might not perish, but have everlasting life. Jesus Christ, the great sacrifice, and head of the Church, commissions his messengers - apostles and their successors - to show men the righteousness of God, and his displeasure at sin, and at the same time his infinite love, which commands them to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and that they who believe on him shall not perish, shall not go down to the pit of destruction, for he has found out an atonement; and that whoever comes to him, through Christ, shall have everlasting life, in virtue of that atonement or ransom price. Should it be objected against my interpretation of אלף aleph, that it cannot be translated chief or head, because it is without the vau shurek, אלוף alluph, which gives it this signification; I would answer, that this form of the word is not essential to the signification given above, as it occurs in several places without the vau shurek, where it most certainly signifies a chief, a leader, captain, etc., e.g., Zac 9:7; Jer 13:21, and Gen 36:30; in the first of which we translate it governor; in the second, captain; and in the third, duke. And although we translate אלוף alluph an ox or beeve, (and it most certainly has this meaning in several places), yet in this signification it is written without the vau shurek in Pro 14:4; Psa 8:7; Isa 30:24; and in Deu 7:13; Deu 28:4, Deu 28:18, Deu 28:51; which all show that this letter is not absolutely necessary to the above signification.
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Canonical locus
Job 33:24
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Apologetics Bible source bundle
Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 33:23
- Job 33:24
- Jer 13:21
- Gen 36:30
- Isa 30:24
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Jesus
- Jesus Christ
- Son
- Church
- Christ
Exposition: Job 33:24 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:25
Hebrew
רֻֽטֲפַשׁ בְּשָׂרוֹ מִנֹּעַר יָשׁוּב לִימֵי עֲלוּמָֽיו׃rutafash-vesharvo-mino'ar-yashvv-liymey-'alvmayv
KJV: His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:
AKJV: His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:
ASV: His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s;
YLT: Fresher is his flesh than a child's, He returneth to the days of his youth.
Commentary WitnessJob 33:25Quoted commentary witness
Commentary Witness
Job 33:25
Verse 25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's - He shall be born a new creature. He shall return to the days of his youth - He shall be born again, and become a child of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Job 33:25
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Jesus
- Christ Jesus
Exposition: Job 33:25 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:26
Hebrew
יֶעְתַּר אֶל־אֱלוֹהַּ ׀ וַיִּרְצֵהוּ וַיַּרְא פָּנָיו בִּתְרוּעָה וַיָּשֶׁב לֶאֱנוֹשׁ צִדְקָתֽוֹ׃ye'etar-'el-'elvoha- -vayiretzehv-vayare'-fanayv-viterv'ah-vayashev-le'envosh-tzideqatvo
KJV: He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.
AKJV: He shall pray to God, and he will be favorable to him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render to man his righteousness.
ASV: He prayeth unto God, and he is favorable unto him,
YLT: He maketh supplication unto God, And He accepteth him. And he seeth His face with shouting, And He returneth to man His righteousness.
Commentary WitnessJob 33:26Quoted commentary witness
Commentary Witness
Job 33:26
Verse 26 He shall pray unto God - Being now adopted into the heavenly family, and become a new creature, he shall have the spirit of prayer, which is indeed the very breath and language of the new or spiritual life. He will be favorable unto him - He shall manifest his good will to him; he shall live under the influences of Divine grace. He shall see his face with joy - He shall know that God is reconciled to him; and this shall fill him with joy, בתרועה bithruah, with exultation: for, "being justified by faith, he has peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom he has received the atonement; and Rejoices in the hope of the glory of God." He will render unto man his righteousness - So good and gracious is the Lord, that by his grace he will enable this convert to live to his glory, to bring forth all the fruits of the Spirit, and then reward him for the work, as if it were done by his own might.
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Job 33:26
Source lane
Apologetics Bible source bundle
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Ray
- Jesus
- Lord Jesus Christ
- Lord
Exposition: Job 33:26 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:27
Hebrew
יָשֹׁר ׀ עַל־אֲנָשִׁים וַיֹּאמֶר חָטָאתִי וְיָשָׁר הֶעֱוֵיתִי וְלֹא־שָׁוָה לִֽי׃yashor- -'al-'anashiym-vayo'mer-chata'tiy-veyashar-he'eveytiy-velo'-shavah-liy
KJV: He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
AKJV: He looks on men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
ASV: He singeth before men, and saith,
YLT: He looketh on men, and saith, `I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.
Commentary WitnessJob 33:27Quoted commentary witness
Commentary Witness
Job 33:27
Verse 27 He looketh upon men - אנשים anashim, wretched, fallen men. He shines into them, to convince them of sin; and if any, under this convincing light of God, say, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and perverted the right - abused the powers, faculties, mercies, and advantages, which thou didst give me, by seeking rest and happiness in the creature, and it profited me not - it was all vanity and vexation of spirit; ולא שוה לי velo shavah li, "and it was not equal to me," did not come up to my expectation, nor supply my wants: -
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Job 33:27
Source lane
Apologetics Bible source bundle
Exposition: Job 33:27 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:28
Hebrew
פָּדָה נפשי נַפְשׁוֹ מֵעֲבֹר בַּשָּׁחַת וחיתי וְחַיָּתוֹ בָּאוֹר תִּרְאֶֽה׃fadah-nfshy-nafeshvo-me'avor-vashachat-vchyty-vechayatvo-va'vor-tire'eh
KJV: He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
AKJV: He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
ASV: He hath redeemed my soul from going into the pit,
YLT: He hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And my life on the light looketh.'
Commentary WitnessJob 33:28Quoted commentary witness
Commentary Witness
Job 33:28
Verse 28 He will deliver his soul - He will do that to every individual penitent sinner which he has promised in his word to do for a lost world - he will deliver his soul from going down to the pit of hell. And his life shall see the light - He shall walk in the light, as Christ is in the light; always enjoying a clear sense of his acceptance through the blood of the Lamb. See another mode of paraphrasing these verses at the end of the chapter.
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Job 33:28
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Apologetics Bible source bundle
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Lamb
Exposition: Job 33:28 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:29
Hebrew
הֶן־כָּל־אֵלֶּה יִפְעַל־אֵל פַּעֲמַיִם שָׁלוֹשׁ עִם־גָּֽבֶר׃hen-khal-'eleh-yife'al-'el-fa'amayim-shalvosh-'im-gaver
KJV: Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,
AKJV: See, all these things works God oftentimes with man,
ASV: Lo, all these things doth God work,
YLT: Lo, all these doth God work, Twice--thrice with man,
Commentary WitnessJob 33:29Quoted commentary witness
Commentary Witness
Job 33:29
Verse 29 Lo, all these things worketh God - God frequently uses one, or another, or all of these means, to bring men, גבר gaber, stout-hearted men, who are far from righteousness, to holiness and heaven. Oftentimes - פעמים שלש paamayim shalosh, "three times over;" or as פעמים paamayim is by the points in the dual number, then it signifies twice three times, that is, again and again; very frequently. Blessed be God!
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Job 33:29
Source lane
Apologetics Bible source bundle
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Lo
Exposition: Job 33:29 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:30
Hebrew
לְהָשִׁיב נַפְשׁוֹ מִנִּי־שָׁחַת לֵאוֹר בְּאוֹר הַֽחַיִּים׃lehashiyv-nafeshvo-miniy-shachat-le'vor-ve'vor-hachayiym
KJV: To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
AKJV: To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
ASV: To bring back his soul from the pit,
YLT: To bring back his soul from the pit, To be enlightened with the light of the living.
Commentary WitnessJob 33:30Quoted commentary witness
Commentary Witness
Job 33:30
Verse 30 To bring back his soul from the pit - Nearly a repetition of the promise in Job 33:28. To be enlightened with the light of the living - An echo of Psa 56:13 : "Thou hast delivered my soul from death, that I may walk before God in the light of the living;" and probably quoted from it.
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Job 33:30
Source lane
Apologetics Bible source bundle
Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 33:28
Exposition: Job 33:30 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:31
Hebrew
הַקְשֵׁב אִיּוֹב שְֽׁמַֽע־לִי הַחֲרֵשׁ וְאָנֹכִי אֲדַבֵּֽר׃haqeshev-'iyvov-shema'-liy-hacharesh-ve'anokhiy-'adaver
KJV: Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak.
AKJV: Mark well, O Job, listen to me: hold your peace, and I will speak.
ASV: Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me:
YLT: Attend, O Job, hearken to me, Keep silent, and I--I do speak.
Commentary Witness (Generated)Job 33:31Generated editorial synthesis
Commentary Witness (Generated)
Job 33:31
Job 33:31 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
Provenance. Rendered as an editorial synthesis tied to the canonical verse context and current chapter source.
Canonical locus
Job 33:31
Source lane
Apologetics Bible source bundle
Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 33:31
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Job
Exposition: Job 33:31 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:32
Hebrew
אִם־יֵשׁ־מִלִּין הֲשִׁיבֵנִי דַּבֵּר כִּֽי־חָפַצְתִּי צַדְּקֶֽךָּ׃'im-yesh-miliyn-hashiyveniy-daver-khiy-chafatzetiy-tzadeqekha
KJV: If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.
AKJV: If you have anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify you.
ASV: If thou hast anything to say, answer me:
YLT: If there are words--answer me, Speak, for I have a desire to justify thee.
Commentary WitnessJob 33:32Quoted commentary witness
Commentary Witness
Job 33:32
Verse 32 If thou hast any thing to say - If thou hast any objection to make against what I have already stated, now answer, now speak freely; for it is my desire that thou shouldst stand clear of all charges.
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Job 33:32
Source lane
Apologetics Bible source bundle
Exposition: Job 33:32 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 33:33
Hebrew
אִם־אַיִן אַתָּה שְֽׁמַֽע־לִי הַחֲרֵשׁ וַאֲאַלֶּפְךָ חָכְמָֽה׃'im-'ayin-'atah-shema'-liy-hacharesh-va'a'alefekha-chakhemah
KJV: If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.
AKJV: If not, listen to me: hold your peace, and I shall teach you wisdom.
ASV: If not, hearken thou unto me:
YLT: If there are not--hearken thou to me, Keep silent, and I teach thee wisdom.
Commentary WitnessJob 33:33Quoted commentary witness
Commentary Witness
Job 33:33
Verse 33 If not - Then I will proceed: listen carefully, keep silence, and I will teach thee what true wisdom is. Job was silent; none of his friends chose to intermeddle farther; and in the next chapter Elihu addresses both Job and them. There are some various readings in the MSS. and versions on certain words in the concluding verses of this chapter, which it will be necessary to mention, as they, if adopted, will lead to a somewhat different paraphrase to that given, especially of Job 33:26-28. Job 33:26 For צדקתו tsidkatho, His righteousness, one MS. and the Chaldee have כצדקתו ketsidkatho, According to his righteousness. Job 33:28 For נפשו naphsho, His soul, which is the keri reading, and that which our translation has followed, נפשי My soul is the reading of many MSS., early editions, the Complutensian, Antwerp, and London Polyglots, the Jerusalem Targum, the Chaldee, the Vulgate, and Coverdale. For חיתו chaiyatho, His life, many MSS., early editions, the Complutensian, Antwerp, and London Polyglots, the Jerusalem Targum, Chaldee, Vulgate, and Coverdale, read חיתי chaiyathi, My life. Both of these are properly the kethib or textual readings in the best editions, but are directed by the Masora to be changed for the keri readings, or those inserted in the margin. For באור תראה baor tireh, Shall See the light, six of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS. have תהיה tihyeh, and twenty-one have כאור caor, thus כאור תהיה caor tihiyeh, Shall Be As the light. The whole verse, by these various readings, will stand thus: - "He will deliver My soul from going into the pit, and My life Shall Be As the light." But if, with the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic, we read פדה padah, in the imperative mood, then the verse will read thus: - "Deliver Thou My Soul from going down to the pit, and My life Shall Be As the light." On the Job 33:26, Job 33:27, Job 33:28, and Job 33:29 verses, the following paraphrase has been recommended. Job 33:26 He (Jesus Christ, the head and ransom price) shall pray unto God, (shall make intercession for the transgressors, for he is the Mediator between God and man). And he (God the Father) will be favorable, (ירצהו yirtsehu, will manifest his good will towards him). And he shall see his face (פניו panaiv, his faces, God the Father, Son, and Spirit) with joy, (בתרועה bithruah, with exultation or triumph), for he will render unto man his righteousness, (ושב לאנוש צדקתי yasheb leenosh tsidkatho, "He will restore to wretched man his righteousness;" i.e., he will create the soul anew, and restore to the fallen spirit that righteousness and true holiness which it has lost, and bring it again to its original state of perfection, through the grand atonement mentioned Job 33:24). But when is it that wretched miserable man shall be brought to this state of salvation? This is answered in Job 33:27 When God, looking upon men, seeth any of them saying, I have sinned and perverted that which is right, and it hath profited me nothing - has afforded nothing equal to my wishes, and the tribulation which I sustained in seeking happiness in forbidden things. Redeem my soul from going down to destruction, and my life shall see the light, or shall be as the light. This is the prayer of the penitent, which God has promised to hear. This is one of the best, the deepest, the most spiritual, and most important chapters which the reader has yet met with in the Book of Job. It is every way important, and full of useful information. It is a grand exhibition of the Way of salvation as revealed to patriarchs and prophets.
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
Canonical locus
Job 33:33
Source lane
Apologetics Bible source bundle
Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 33:26-28
- Job 33:26
- Job 33:28
- Job 33:27
- Job 33:29
- Job 33:24
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Septuagint
- Vulgate
- Targum
- Ray
- Jesus
- Complutensian
- Antwerp
- London Polyglots
- Jerusalem Targum
- Chaldee
- Coverdale
- Syriac
- Arabic
- Jesus Christ
- Father
- Son
- When God
- Job
Exposition: Job 33:33 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Citation trailOpen the commentary counts, references, and named sources.
Scholarly apparatus
Commentary citation index
This chapter now surfaces commentary as quoted witness material with an explicit citation trail. The index below gathers the canonical references and named authorities detected inside the commentary layer for faster academic review.
Direct commentary witnesses
25
Generated editorial witnesses
8
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Apologetics Bible source bundle
Canonical references surfaced in commentary
- Job 33:1-7
- Job 33:8-12
- Job 33:13-15
- Job 33:16-18
- Job 33:19-22
- Job 33:23
- Job 33:24
- Job 33:25-30
- Job 33:31-33
- Job 33:1
- Job 33:2
- Job 33:3
- Gen 2:7
- Job 33:4
- Job 33:5
- Job 33:6
- Job 9:34
- Job 33:7
- Job 13:27
- Job 14:16
- Job 31:4
- Job 33:8
- Job 33:9
- Job 33:10
- Job 33:11
- Job 33:12
- Job 33:13
- Job 33:15-24
- Job 33:14
- Job 4:12-21
- Job 33:15
- Job 33:17
- Job 33:16
- Job 33:18
- Job 33:19
- Job 33:20
- Job 33:21
- Job 33:22
- Jer 13:21
- Gen 36:30
- Isa 30:24
- Job 33:25
- Job 33:26
- Job 33:27
- Job 33:28
- Job 33:29
- Job 33:30
- Job 33:31
- Job 33:32
- Job 33:26-28
- Job 33:33
Named authorities or texts surfaced in commentary
- Ovid
- Behold
- Mr
- Good
- Arabic
- Elihu
- Bible
- Church
- Ray
- David
- Destinies
- Memithim
- Latins
- Parcae
- Goths
- Fatal Sisters
- Scandinavians
- Hela
- Arabians
- Azrael
- Chief
- Head
- Teacher
- Jesus
- Jesus Christ
- Son
- Christ
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Each card opens chapter 1 for that canonical book. The directory is here for navigation, not as the first thing a visitor has to read.
Examples: Genesis, Psalms, Gospels, prophets, Romans, Revelation.
Genesis
Rendered chapters 1–50 are mapped to the public reader path for Genesis. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Exodus
Rendered chapters 1–40 are mapped to the public reader path for Exodus. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Leviticus
Rendered chapters 1–27 are mapped to the public reader path for Leviticus. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Numbers
Rendered chapters 1–36 are mapped to the public reader path for Numbers. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Deuteronomy
Rendered chapters 1–34 are mapped to the public reader path for Deuteronomy. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Joshua
Rendered chapters 1–24 are mapped to the public reader path for Joshua. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Judges
Rendered chapters 1–21 are mapped to the public reader path for Judges. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Ruth
Rendered chapters 1–4 are mapped to the public reader path for Ruth. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
1 Samuel
Rendered chapters 1–31 are mapped to the public reader path for 1 Samuel. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
2 Samuel
Rendered chapters 1–24 are mapped to the public reader path for 2 Samuel. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
1 Kings
Rendered chapters 1–22 are mapped to the public reader path for 1 Kings. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
2 Kings
Rendered chapters 1–25 are mapped to the public reader path for 2 Kings. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
1 Chronicles
Rendered chapters 1–29 are mapped to the public reader path for 1 Chronicles. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
2 Chronicles
Rendered chapters 1–36 are mapped to the public reader path for 2 Chronicles. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Ezra
Rendered chapters 1–10 are mapped to the public reader path for Ezra. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Nehemiah
Rendered chapters 1–13 are mapped to the public reader path for Nehemiah. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Esther
Rendered chapters 1–10 are mapped to the public reader path for Esther. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Job
Rendered chapters 1–42 are mapped to the public reader path for Job. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Psalms
Rendered chapters 1–150 are mapped to the public reader path for Psalms. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Proverbs
Rendered chapters 1–31 are mapped to the public reader path for Proverbs. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Ecclesiastes
Rendered chapters 1–12 are mapped to the public reader path for Ecclesiastes. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Song of Solomon
Rendered chapters 1–8 are mapped to the public reader path for Song of Solomon. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Isaiah
Rendered chapters 1–66 are mapped to the public reader path for Isaiah. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Jeremiah
Rendered chapters 1–52 are mapped to the public reader path for Jeremiah. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Lamentations
Rendered chapters 1–5 are mapped to the public reader path for Lamentations. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Ezekiel
Rendered chapters 1–48 are mapped to the public reader path for Ezekiel. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Daniel
Rendered chapters 1–12 are mapped to the public reader path for Daniel. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Hosea
Rendered chapters 1–14 are mapped to the public reader path for Hosea. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Joel
Rendered chapters 1–3 are mapped to the public reader path for Joel. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Amos
Rendered chapters 1–9 are mapped to the public reader path for Amos. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Obadiah
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Jonah
Rendered chapters 1–4 are mapped to the public reader path for Jonah. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Micah
Rendered chapters 1–7 are mapped to the public reader path for Micah. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Nahum
Rendered chapters 1–3 are mapped to the public reader path for Nahum. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Habakkuk
Rendered chapters 1–3 are mapped to the public reader path for Habakkuk. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Zephaniah
Rendered chapters 1–3 are mapped to the public reader path for Zephaniah. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Haggai
Rendered chapters 1–2 are mapped to the public reader path for Haggai. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Zechariah
Rendered chapters 1–14 are mapped to the public reader path for Zechariah. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Malachi
Rendered chapters 1–4 are mapped to the public reader path for Malachi. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Matthew
Rendered chapters 1–28 are mapped to the public reader path for Matthew. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Mark
Rendered chapters 1–16 are mapped to the public reader path for Mark. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Luke
Rendered chapters 1–24 are mapped to the public reader path for Luke. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
John
Rendered chapters 1–21 are mapped to the public reader path for John. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Acts
Rendered chapters 1–28 are mapped to the public reader path for Acts. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Romans
Rendered chapters 1–16 are mapped to the public reader path for Romans. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
1 Corinthians
Rendered chapters 1–16 are mapped to the public reader path for 1 Corinthians. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
2 Corinthians
Rendered chapters 1–13 are mapped to the public reader path for 2 Corinthians. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Galatians
Rendered chapters 1–6 are mapped to the public reader path for Galatians. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Ephesians
Rendered chapters 1–6 are mapped to the public reader path for Ephesians. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Philippians
Rendered chapters 1–4 are mapped to the public reader path for Philippians. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Colossians
Rendered chapters 1–4 are mapped to the public reader path for Colossians. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
1 Thessalonians
Rendered chapters 1–5 are mapped to the public reader path for 1 Thessalonians. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
2 Thessalonians
Rendered chapters 1–3 are mapped to the public reader path for 2 Thessalonians. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
1 Timothy
Rendered chapters 1–6 are mapped to the public reader path for 1 Timothy. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
2 Timothy
Rendered chapters 1–4 are mapped to the public reader path for 2 Timothy. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Titus
Rendered chapters 1–3 are mapped to the public reader path for Titus. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Philemon
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Hebrews
Rendered chapters 1–13 are mapped to the public reader path for Hebrews. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
James
Rendered chapters 1–5 are mapped to the public reader path for James. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
1 Peter
Rendered chapters 1–5 are mapped to the public reader path for 1 Peter. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
2 Peter
Rendered chapters 1–3 are mapped to the public reader path for 2 Peter. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
1 John
Rendered chapters 1–5 are mapped to the public reader path for 1 John. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
2 John
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3 John
Rendered chapter 1 are mapped to the public reader path for 3 John. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Jude
Rendered chapter 1 are mapped to the public reader path for Jude. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
Revelation
Rendered chapters 1–22 are mapped to the public reader path for Revelation. Use this card to open chapter 1 and move directly into the study surface.
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Commentary Witness
Job 33:1
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Canonical locus
Job 33:1
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