Berean Standard Bible
Job 33:10
10Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.
Job 33:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,
- New International Version (NIV)Yet God has found fault with me; he considers me his enemy.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy,
- New King James Version (NKJV)Yet He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy;
Context of Job 33:10
8Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words: 9‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me. Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy. 11He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’ 12Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.
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הֵ֣ן תְּ֭נוּאוֹת עָלַ֣י יִמְצָ֑א יַחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי לְאוֹיֵ֣ב לֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 33:10
- Job 9:30If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
- Job 10:15If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
- Job 13:25Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
- Job 14:16For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
- Job 34:5For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
- Job 13:24Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
- Job 16:9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
- Job 19:11His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
- Job 30:21You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.
- Job 31:35(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
Commentaries on Job 33:10
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Behold, he findeth occasions against me - That is, God. This is not exactly the language of Job, though much that he had said had seemed to imply this. The idea is, that God sought opportunity to oppose him; that he was desirous to find in him some ground or reason for punishing him; that he wished to be hostile to him, and was narrowly on the watch to find an opportunity which would justify his bringing calamity upon him. The word rendered “occasions”…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-13Verses 8-13 Elihu charges Job with reflecting upon the justice and goodness of God. When we hear any thing said to God's dishonour, we ought to bear our testimony against it. Job had represented God as severe in marking what he did amiss. Elihu urges that he had spoken wrong, and that he ought to humble himself before God, and by repentance to unsay it. God is not accountable to us. It is unreasonable for weak, sinful creatures, to strive with a God of…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. occasions--for hostility; literally, "enmities" (Job 13:24; 16:9; 19:11; 30:21).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 33
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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