Job 33:6
4 The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
5 If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
7 Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.
8 Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.
- KJV
- Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
- WEB
- Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.
- ASV
- Behold, I am toward God even as thou art: I also am formed out of the clay.
- DARBY
- Behold, before God I am as thou; I also am formed out of the clay.
- BLB
- Behold, I [am] according to your mouth before God; from clay I also have been formed.
- ÅB
- Se, jeg er din like for Gud, også jeg er dannet av leire.
- OTB
- Jeg er akkurat som deg for Gud;
jeg er også blitt formet av leire. - B1930
- Se, jeg er din like for Gud, også jeg er dannet av ler.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 4:19
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Read in contextJob 10:9
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Read in context2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Read in contextJob 20:22
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
Read in contextJob 31:35
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
Read in contextJob 23:3–4
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
Read in contextJob 13:12
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Read in contextJob 9:32–35
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
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