Job 32:19
17 I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion.
18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Behold, my belly is like unvented wine; it is about to burst like a new wineskin.
- KJV
- Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
- WEB
- Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
- ASV
- Behold, my breast is as wine which hath no vent; Like new wine-skins it is ready to burst.
- DARBY
- Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; like new flasks, it is ready to burst.
- BLB
- Behold, my belly [is] like wine not opened; like new wineskins, it is bursting open.
- ÅB
- Mitt indre er som innestengt vin; som nyfylte skinnsekker vil det revne.
- OTB
- Inni meg er jeg som vin uten ventil,
som nye vinskinssekker klare til å briste. - B1930
- Mitt indre er som innestengt vin; som nyfylte skinnsekker vil det revne.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 9:17
Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
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