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Job 33:5
5Answer me now, Job, if you can. Prepare yourself. Be ready to explain your problem to me.
Job 33:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
- New International Version (NIV)Answer me then, if you can; stand up and argue your case before me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
- New King James Version (NKJV)If you can answer me, Set your words in order before me; Take your stand.
Context of Job 33:5
3I am an honest man, so you can believe what I say. I will tell you what I know is true. 4The Spirit of Almighty God has made me. His breath gives me life. Answer 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. 7So you should not be afraid of me. I will not do anything to hurt you.
Read all of Job 33Job 33:5 word by word
אִם־תּוּכַ֥ל הֲשִׁיבֵ֑נִי עֶרְכָ֥ה לְ֝פָנַ֗י הִתְיַצָּֽבָה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 33:5
- Job 33:32After that, you may answer me, if you have something to say. If I could say that you have not done anything wrong, that would make me happy.
- Job 32:1Job would not agree that he had done anything that was wrong. So his three friends refused to argue with him any more.
- Job 23:4I would tell him why I am not guilty. I would say many things to explain this to him.
- Job 32:14Job was not speaking to me about his problems. So I will not answer him in the way that you did.
- Psalms 50:21You did all these things, and I said nothing. So you thought that I was as bad as you are. But now I am warning you! I will tell you clearly what you have done wrong.
- Acts 10:26But Peter lifted Cornelius up from the ground and he said to him, ‘Stand up. I am only a man, like you are.’
Commentaries on Job 33:5
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5If thou canst answer me - The meaning of this verse is this: “The controversy between you and me, if you choose to reply, shall be conducted in the most equitable manner, and on the most equal terms. I will not attempt, as your three friends have done, to overwhelm you with reproaches; nor will I attempt to overawe you as God would do, so that you could not reply. I am a man like yourself, and desire that if anything can be said against what I have to…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5Elihu invited Job to present his case, acting as if he were God or the judge Job had been seeking (9:32–35).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. Images from a court of justice. stand up--alluding to Job's words (Job 30:20).Read the comment
In the dictionaries
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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