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Contemporary English Version

Job 33:4

just as surely as the Spirit of God All-Powerful gave me the breath of 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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Ruler of all gives 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 Elihu Speaks Job, listen to me! Pay close attention. 2 Everything I will say 3 is true and sincere, 4 just as surely as the Spirit of God All-Powerful gave me the breath of life. 5 Now line up your arguments and prepare to face me. 6 We each were made from clay, and God has no favorites, 7 so don't be afraid of me or what I might do.

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
The man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob. You have wrestled with God and with men, and you have won. That's why your name will be Israel."
Genesis 43:30
Right away he rushed off to his room and cried because of his love for Benjamin.
Genesis 43:34
They were served food from Joseph's table, and Benjamin was given five times as much as each of the others. So Joseph's brothers drank with him and had a good time.
Genesis 45:2
Then he cried so loudly that the Egyptians heard him and told about it in the king's palace.
Genesis 46:29
So Joseph got in his chariot and went to meet his father. When they met, Joseph hugged his father around the neck and cried for a long time.
Nehemiah 1:11
Please answer my prayer and the prayer of your other servants who gladly honor your name. When I serve the king his wine today, make him pleased with me and have him do what I ask.
Job 2:12
When they came near enough to see Job, they could hardly recognize him. And in their great sorrow, they tore their clothes, then sprinkled dust on their heads and cried bitterly.
Psalms 34:4
I asked the Lord for help, and he saved me from all my fears.
Proverbs 16:7
When we please the Lord , even our enemies make friends with us.
Proverbs 21:1
The Lord controls rulers, just as he determines the course of rivers.

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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