English Standard Version
Job 33:10
10Behold, he 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Yet He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy;
- New Living Translation (NLT)God is picking a quarrel with me, and he considers me his enemy.
Context of Job 33:10
8"Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard the sound of your words. 9You say, 'I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me. Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy, 11he puts my feet in the stocks and watches all my paths.' 12"Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.
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הֵ֣ן תְּ֭נוּאוֹת עָלַ֣י יִמְצָ֑א יַחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי לְאוֹיֵ֣ב לֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 33:10
- Job 9:30If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
- Job 10:15If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction.
- Job 13:25Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?
- Job 14:16For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin;
- Job 34:5For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
- Job 13:24Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?
- Job 16:9He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
- Job 19:11He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary.
- Job 30:21You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me.
- Job 31:35Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!
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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