EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 33:4
4The Spirit of Almighty God has made me. His breath gives me life.
Job 33:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
- New International Version (NIV)The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Context of Job 33:4
2I will speak to you now. I am ready to tell you what I think. 3I am an honest man, so you can believe what I say. I will tell you what I know is true. The Spirit of Almighty God has made me. His breath gives me life. 5Answer me now, Job, if you can. Prepare yourself. Be ready to explain your problem to me. 6Listen! When God looks at us, we are the same as each other. God used clay to make both of us.
Read all of Job 33Job 33:4 word by word
רֽוּחַ־אֵ֥ל עָשָׂ֑תְנִי וְנִשְׁמַ֖ת שַׁדַּ֣י תְּחַיֵּֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 33:4
- Job 10:12You gave me life and you loved me faithfully. You took care of me and you kept me safe.
- Job 32:8But it is a person's spirit that helps them to understand things. Almighty God has to put his breath into them.
- Genesis 2:7Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and he made a man. He breathed air into the nose of the man to give him life. So the man became alive.
- Psalms 33:6The word of the Lord made the heavens. When he spoke, all the stars in the sky appeared.
- Romans 8:2If you belong to Christ Jesus, God's Spirit has given you a new life. God's Spirit now rules in your life and he has made you free. Sin and death no longer have authority over you.
- 1 Corinthians 15:45It says in the Bible, ‘The first man, Adam, became a person who received life.’ But Christ is like the last Adam. He is a spirit who gives life to people.
Commentaries on Job 33:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4The Spirit of God hath made me - Another plain allusion to the account of the creation of man, Genesis 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."Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4The Spirit of God hath made me; - see the notes at Job 32:8. There is an evident allusion in this verse to the mode in which man was created, when God breathed into him the breath of life and he became a living being; Genesis 2:7. But it is not quite clear why Elihu adverts here to the fact that God had made him, or what is the bearing of this fact on what he proposed to say. The most probable supposition is, that he means to state that he is, like Job, a…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. The Spirit of God hath made me--as He did thee: latter clause of Job 33:6 (Ge 2:7). Therefore thou needest not fear me, as thou wouldest God (Job 33:7; Job 9:34). On the other hand, "the breath of the Almighty hath inspired me" (as Job 32:8); not as English Version, "given me life"; therefore "I am according to thy wish (Job 9:32, 33) in God's stead" to thee; a "daysman," umpire, or mediator, between God and thee. So Elihu was designed by the Holy…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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