Job 33:25

23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:

24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:

26 He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.

27 He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

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 satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

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  • 2 Kings 5:14

    Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

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  • Joshua 14:10–11

    And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

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  • Deuteronomy 34:7

    And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

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  • Job 42:16

    After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.

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  • Hosea 2:15

    And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

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