Job 33:25

23 Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,

24 to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’

then his flesh is refreshed like a child’s; he returns to the days of his youth.

26 He prays to God and finds favor; he sees God’s face and shouts for joy, and God restores His righteousness to that man.

27 Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
then his flesh is refreshed like a child’s; he returns to the days of his youth.
KJV
His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:
WEB
His flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.
ASV
His flesh shall be fresher than a child`s; He returneth to the days of his youth.
DARBY
His flesh shall be fresher than in childhood; he shall return to the days of his youth.
BLB
[then] his flesh is refreshed like a child’s, [and] he returns to the days of his youth.
ÅB
Hans kropp blir da frodigere enn i ungdommen, han blir igjen som i sin ungdoms dager.
OTB
la deres kjøtt bli fornyet som et barns;
la dem vende tilbake til deres ungdoms kraft’—
B1930
Hans kropp blir da frodigere enn i ungdommen, han blir atter som i sin ungdoms dager.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 103:5

    who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

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  • 2 Kings 5:14

    So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child, and he was clean.

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  • Joshua 14:10–11

    Now behold, as the LORD promised, He has kept me alive these forty-five years since He spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old,

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  • Deuteronomy 34:7

    Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.

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  • Job 42:16

    After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

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  • Hosea 2:15

    There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

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