English Standard Version
Job 33:5
5Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)If you can answer me, Set your words in order before me; Take your stand.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Answer me, if you can; make your case and take your stand.
Context of Job 33:5
3My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely. 4The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life. Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand. 6Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay. 7Behold, no fear of me need terrify you; my pressure will not be heavy upon you.
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אִם־תּוּכַ֥ל הֲשִׁיבֵ֑נִי עֶרְכָ֥ה לְ֝פָנַ֗י הִתְיַצָּֽבָה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 33:5
- Job 33:32If you have any words, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.
- Job 32:1So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
- Job 23:4I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
- Job 32:14He has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your speeches.
- Psalms 50:21These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.
- Acts 10:26But Peter lifted him up, saying, "Stand up; I too am a man."
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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