Tree of Life Version
Job 33:5
5Answer me, if you can; array yourselves 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.
- 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
3My words are from my upright heart; my lips speak sincerely what they know. 4“The Ruach of God has made me; the breath of Shaddai gives me life. Answer me, if you can; array yourselves before me; take your stand! 6Look, I am the same as you before God; I too am formed from clay. 7See, no fear of me should terrify you, nor should my pressure be heavy on 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 anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I want to justify you.
- Job 32:1So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
- Job 23:4I would lay out my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.
- Job 32:14Job has not directed his words to me and I will not respond to him with your arguments.
- Psalms 50:21These things you have done— Should I keep silent? You thought I was just like you— but I reprove you, and set the case before your eyes.
- Acts 10:26But Peter pulled him up, saying, “Stand up! I too am just 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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