Tree of Life Version
Job 33:6
6Look, I am the same as you before God; I too am formed from clay.
Job 33:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
- New International Version (NIV)I am the same as you in God’s sight; I too am a piece of clay.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Truly I am as your spokesman before God; I also have been formed out of clay.
Context of Job 33:6
4“The Ruach of God has made me; the breath of Shaddai gives me life. 5Answer me, if you can; array yourselves before me; take your stand! Look, 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. 8“Indeed, you have said in my hearing, —I heard the sound of the words:
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הֵן־אֲנִ֣י כְפִ֣יךָ לָאֵ֑ל מֵ֝חֹ֗מֶר קֹרַ֥צְתִּי גַם־אָֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 33:6
- Genesis 30:2But Jacob became furious with Rachel and said, “Am I, instead of God, the one who withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
- Exodus 4:16He will be your spokesman to the people, so that he may act as a mouthpiece for you, and it will be as if you were as God for him.
- 2 Corinthians 5:20We are therefore ambassadors for Messiah, as though God were making His appeal through us. We beg you on behalf of Messiah, be reconciled to God.
- Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
- Job 10:9Remember You fashioned me like clay; will You return me to dust?
- Job 13:12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
- Genesis 2:7Then Adonai Elohim formed the man out of the dust from the ground and He breathed into his nostrils a breath of life—so the man became a living being.
- Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow will you eat food, until you return to the ground, since from it were you taken. For you are dust, and to dust will you return.”
- 2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if the tent, our earthly home, is torn down, we have a building from God—a home not made with human hands, eternal in the heavens.
Commentaries on Job 33:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay - Mr. Good, and before him none other that I have seen, has most probably hit the true meaning: - "Behold, I am thy fellow. I too was formed by God out of the clay." The word כפיך kephicha, which we translate according to thy wish, and which, if Hebrew, would mean like to thy mouth; he considers as pure Arabic, with a Hebrew postfix, (Arabic) kefoo, signifying fellow, equal, like…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Behold, I am according to thy wish in Gods stead - Margin, as in Hebrew “mouth.” The mouth is that by which we express our desires, and the word here is equivalent to wish. Some have, however, rendered this differently. Umbreit translates it, ich bin, wie du, von Gott - I am, as thou art, from God. So Noyes, “I, like thee, am a creature of God.” Wemyss, “I am thine equal in the sight of God.” Coverdale, “Behold, before God am I even as thou, for I am…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. (See on Job 33:4; Job 31:35; 13:3, 20, 21). formed--Though acting as God's representative, I am but a creature, like thyself. Arabic, "pressed together," as a mass of clay by the potter, in forming a vessel [Umbreit]. Hebrew, "cut off," as the portion taken from the clay to form it [Maurer].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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