Job 34:33

Job 34:33 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.
• New International Version (NIV)Should God then reward you on your terms, when you refuse to repent? You must decide, not I; so tell me what you know.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Will he then make repayment to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Should He repay it according to your terms, Just because you disavow it? You must choose, and not I; Therefore speak what you know.

Context of Job 34:33

31“For has anyone said to God, ‘I have borne chastisement; I will not offend anymore; 32Teach me what I do not see; If I have done iniquity, I will not do it again’? Shall He recompense on your terms, because you have rejected it? For you must choose, and not I; Therefore declare what you know. 34Men of understanding will say to me, And a wise man who hears me, 35‘Job speaks without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom.

Job 34:33 word by word

הַֽמֵעִמְּךָ֬ יְשַׁלְמֶ֨נָּה כִּֽי־מָאַ֗סְתָּ כִּי־אַתָּ֣ה תִבְחַ֣ר וְלֹא־אָ֑נִי וּֽמַה־יָדַ֥עְתָּ דַבֵּֽר׃Read the interlinear

• recompenseשָׁלֵםshâlam · to completeH7999
• on your termsמֵעִם‛im · from withH5973
• becauseכִּיkîy · forH3588
• you have rejectedמָאַסmâ'as · to rejectH3988
• For you must chooseבָּחַרbâchar · to chooseH977
• Therefore declareדָבַרdâbar · to speak: promiseH1696
• whatמָהmâh mah mâ ma meh · what?H4100
• you knowיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045

Cross-references for Job 34:33

• Job 9:12Were He to snatch away, who could restrain Him? Who could say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’
• Job 18:4O you who tear yourself in your anger-- For your sake is the earth to be abandoned, Or the rock to be moved from its place?
• Isaiah 45:9“Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker-- An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth! Will the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you doing?’ Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands’?
• Romans 9:20On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it?
• Romans 11:35Or who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to him again?
• Job 34:11For He pays a man according to his work, And makes him find it according to his way.
• Job 15:31Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; For emptiness will be his reward.
• Psalms 89:30“If his sons forsake My law And do not walk in My judgments,
• Proverbs 11:31If the righteous will be rewarded in the earth, How much more the wicked and the sinner!
• 2 Thessalonians 1:6For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
• Hebrews 2:2For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,
• Hebrews 11:26considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking to the reward.
• Psalms 135:6Whatever the Lord pleases, He does, In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.
• Matthew 20:12saying, ‘These last men have worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.’
• Job 33:5Refute me if you can; Array yourselves before me, take your stand.

Commentaries on Job 34:33

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 33According to thy mind? he will recompense it - Mr. Good renders the whole passage thus: - "Then in the presence of thy tribes According as thou art bruised shall he make it whole. But it is thine to choose, and not mine; So, what thou determinest, say." This may at least be considered a paraphrase on the very obscure original. If thou wilt not thus come unto him, he will act according to justice, whether that be for or against thee. Choose what part thou…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 33Should it be according to thy mind? - Margin, as in Hebrew “from with thee” - המעמך hamē‛imekā There has been much diversity of opinion in regard to the meaning of this verse. It is exceedingly obscure in the original, and has the appearance of being a proverbial expression. The general sense seems to be, that God will not be regulated in his dealings by what may be the views of man, or by what man might be disposed to choose or refuse. He will act…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 31-37Verses 31-37 When we reprove for what is amiss, we must direct to what is good. Job's friends would have had him own himself a wicked man. Let will only oblige him to own that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. Let us, in giving reproof, not make a matter worse than it is. Elihu directs Job to humble himself before God for his sins, and to accept the punishment. Also to pray to God to discover his sins to him. A good man is willing to know the worst of…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3333. Rather, "should God recompense (sinners) according to thy mind? Then it is for thee to reject and to choose, and not me" [Umbreit]; or as Maurer, "For thou hast rejected God's way of recompensing; state therefore thy way, for thou must choose, not I," that is, it is thy part, not mine, to show a better way than God's.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 34:33

• Infidelity

In the dictionaries

• Chastisement
• Choose
• Dust
• Elihu
• Fit

Commentaries on Job 34

• 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