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Job 33:4

The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Ruler of all gives me life.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Breath;   God;   Holy Spirit;   Man;   Scofield Reference Index - Holy Spirit;   Thompson Chain Reference - Creator;   God;   Man;   The Topic Concordance - Creation;   Life;   Man;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Holy Spirit, the, Is God;   Holy Spirit, the Personality of;   Man;   Titles and Names of the Holy Spirit;   Trinity, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Creation;   Holy spirit;   Spirit;   Trinity;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Holy Spirit;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Breath;   Job, the Book of;   Life;   Spirit;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Heredity;   Holy Spirit;   Pit;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Breathing;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Job, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Breath;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Holy Ghost;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Death;   Eschatology of the Old Testament (with Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Writings);   Holy Spirit;   Psychology;   Soul;   Spirit;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Holy Spirit;   Life;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Spirit of God has made me,and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Hebrew Names Version
The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of Shaddai gives me life.
King James Version
The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
English Standard Version
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
New Century Version
The Spirit of God created me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.
New English Translation
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Amplified Bible
"The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life [which inspires me].
New American Standard Bible
"The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
World English Bible
The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The Spirite of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almightie hath giuen me life.
Legacy Standard Bible
The Spirit of God has made me,And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Berean Standard Bible
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Contemporary English Version
just as surely as the Spirit of God All-Powerful gave me the breath of life.
Complete Jewish Bible
It is the Spirit of God that made me, the breath of Shaddai that gives me life.
Darby Translation
The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
Easy-to-Read Version
God's Spirit made me. My life comes from God All-Powerful.
George Lamsa Translation
The Spirit of God has stirred me up, and the breath of the Almighty has given me life.
Good News Translation
God's spirit made me and gave me life.
Lexham English Bible
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of Shaddai gives life to me.
Literal Translation
The Spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The sprete of God hath made me, & the breth of the Allmightie hath geue me my life.
American Standard Version
The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Almighty giveth me life.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty given me life.
King James Version (1611)
The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almightie hath giuen me life.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The spirite of God hath made me, and the breath of the almightie hath geuen me my lyfe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The Divine Spirit is that which formed me, and the breath of the Almighty that which teaches me.
English Revised Version
The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty giveth me life.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The spirit of God made me, and the brething of Almyyti God quykenyde me.
Update Bible Version
The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Webster's Bible Translation
The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
New King James Version
The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
New Living Translation
For the Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
New Life Bible
The Spirit of God has made me. And the breath of the All-powerful gives me life.
New Revised Standard
The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The spirit of GOD, hath made me, and, the inspiration of the Almighty, giveth me life.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.
Revised Standard Version
The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Young's Literal Translation
The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Mighty doth quicken me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Contextual Overview

1 And now, O Job, give ear to my words, and take note of all I say. 2 See, now my mouth is open, my tongue gives out words. 3 My heart is overflowing with knowledge, my lips say what is true. 4 The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Ruler of all gives me life. 5 If you are able, give me an answer; put your cause in order, and come forward. 6 See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth. 7 Fear of me will not overcome you, and my hand will not be hard on you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 10:12, Job 32:8, Genesis 2:7, Psalms 33:6, Romans 8:2, 1 Corinthians 15:45

Reciprocal: Psalms 104:30 - sendest Isaiah 42:5 - he that giveth John 20:22 - he breathed Acts 17:25 - seeing

Cross-References

Genesis 32:28
And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.
Genesis 43:30
Then Joseph's heart went out to his brother, and he went quickly into his room, for he was overcome with weeping.
Genesis 43:34
And Joseph sent food to them from his table, but he sent five times as much to Benjamin as to any of the others. And they took wine freely with him.
Genesis 45:2
And so loud was his weeping, that it came to the ears of the Egyptians and all Pharaoh's house.
Genesis 46:29
And Joseph got his carriage ready and went to Goshen for the meeting with his father; and when he came before him, he put his arms round his neck, weeping.
Nehemiah 1:11
O Lord, let your ear take note of the prayer of your servant, and of the prayers of your servants, who take delight in worshipping your name: give help, O Lord, to your servant this day, and let him have mercy in the eyes of this man. (Now I was the king's wine-servant.)
Job 2:12
And lifting up their eyes when they were still far off, it did not seem that the man they saw was Job because of the change in him. And they gave way to bitter weeping, with signs of grief, and put dust on their heads.
Psalms 34:4
I was searching for the Lord, and he gave ear to my voice, and made me free from all my fears.
Proverbs 16:7
When a man's ways are pleasing to the Lord, he makes even his haters be at peace with him.
Proverbs 21:1
The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Spirit of God hath made me,.... As a man; so every man is made by God, and not by himself; Father, Son, and Spirit, are his Makers or Creators, as we read of them in the plural number, Psalms 149:2; and this is a proof of the deity of the Spirit, who was not only concerned in the creation of all things, garnishing the heavens, and moving upon the face of the waters on the earth; but in the formation of man:

and the breath of the mighty hath given me life; the same with the Spirit of God, the allusion is to the creation of man at first, when God breathed into him the breath of life, and he became a living soul: life natural is from God, he is the God of our life, he gives all the mercies of life, and by him is this life preserved; and the whole is the effect of almighty power: now this is observed by Elihu to Job, to encourage him to attend to him without fear, since he was a man, a creature of God, as he was: it may be understood of his spiritual formation, the Spirit of God remakes men, or makes them new men, new creatures; this is done in regeneration, which is the work of the Holy Spirit; hence regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost, are put together; and being a work of almighty power, is proof of the deity of the Spirit of God; it is he that quickens men when dead in trespasses and sins, and makes them alive to God; which appears by their spiritual breathings after divine things, and by the exercise of their spiritual senses, and by their performance of spiritual actions; and now Elihu, being a man regenerated and quickened by the Spirit, might more justly claim the attention of Job, since what he should say was what he had heard, felt, and seen, as good man, one that had an experience of divine and spiritual things.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Spirit of God hath made me; - see the notes at Job 32:8. There is an evident allusion in this verse to the mode in which man was created, when God breathed into him the breath of life and he became a living being; Genesis 2:7. But it is not quite clear why Elihu adverts here to the fact that God had made him, or what is the bearing of this fact on what he proposed to say. The most probable supposition is, that he means to state that he is, like Job, a man; that both were formed in the same way - from the same breathing of the Almighty, and from the same clay Job 33:6; and that although he bad undertaken to speak to Job in God’s stead Job 33:6, yet Job had no occasion to fear that he would be overawed and confounded by the Divine Majesty. He had dreaded that, if he should be permitted to bring his case before him (Notes, Job 33:7), but Elihu says that now he would have no such thing to apprehend. Though it would be in fact the same thing as carrying the matter before God - since he came in his name, and meant to state the true principles of his government, yet Job would be also really conducting the cause with a man like himself, and might, unawed, enter with the utmost freedom into the statement of his views.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 33:4. The Spirit of God hath made me — Another plain allusion to the account of the creation of man, Genesis 2:7, as the words נשמת nishmath, the breath or breathing of God, and תחיני techaiyeni, hath given me life, prove: "He breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives, and he became a living soul."


 
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