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Geneva Bible
Job 33:5
If thou canst giue me answere, prepare thy selfe and stand before me.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Refute me if you can.Prepare your case against me; take your stand.
Refute me if you can.Prepare your case against me; take your stand.
Hebrew Names Version
If you can, answer me; Set your words in order before me, and stand forth.
If you can, answer me; Set your words in order before me, and stand forth.
King James Version
If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
English Standard Version
Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
New Century Version
Answer me if you can; get yourself ready and stand before me.
Answer me if you can; get yourself ready and stand before me.
New English Translation
Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!
Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!
Amplified Bible
"Answer me, if you can; Set yourselves before me, take your stand.
"Answer me, if you can; Set yourselves before me, take your stand.
New American Standard Bible
"Refute me if you can; Line up against me, take your stand.
"Refute me if you can; Line up against me, take your stand.
World English Bible
If you can, answer me; Set your words in order before me, and stand forth.
If you can, answer me; Set your words in order before me, and stand forth.
Legacy Standard Bible
Respond to me if you can;Arrange yourselves before me, take your stand.
Respond to me if you can;Arrange yourselves before me, take your stand.
Berean Standard Bible
Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.
Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.
Contemporary English Version
Now line up your arguments and prepare to face me.
Now line up your arguments and prepare to face me.
Complete Jewish Bible
So refute me, if you can; organize your words, take your stand!
So refute me, if you can; organize your words, take your stand!
Darby Translation
If thou canst, answer me; array [thy words] before me: take thy stand.
If thou canst, answer me; array [thy words] before me: take thy stand.
Easy-to-Read Version
Listen to me and answer if you can. Get your arguments ready to face me.
Listen to me and answer if you can. Get your arguments ready to face me.
George Lamsa Translation
If you can answer me, then prepare yourself and stand up before me.
If you can answer me, then prepare yourself and stand up before me.
Good News Translation
Answer me if you can. Prepare your arguments.
Answer me if you can. Prepare your arguments.
Lexham English Bible
"If you are able, answer me. Present your argument before me; take your stand.
"If you are able, answer me. Present your argument before me; take your stand.
Literal Translation
If you are able, answer me; set yourself in order before me. Stand up!
If you are able, answer me; set yourself in order before me. Stand up!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf thou cast, then geue me answere: prepare thy self to stode before me face to face.
Yf thou cast, then geue me answere: prepare thy self to stode before me face to face.
American Standard Version
If thou canst, answer thou me; Set thy words in order before me, stand forth.
If thou canst, answer thou me; Set thy words in order before me, stand forth.
Bible in Basic English
If you are able, give me an answer; put your cause in order, and come forward.
If you are able, give me an answer; put your cause in order, and come forward.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
If thou canst, answer thou me, set thy words in order before me, stand forth.
If thou canst, answer thou me, set thy words in order before me, stand forth.
King James Version (1611)
If thou canst, answere me, set thy wordes in order before me, stand vp.
If thou canst, answere me, set thy wordes in order before me, stand vp.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If thou canst then geue me aunswere, prepare thy selfe and stande before me face to face.
If thou canst then geue me aunswere, prepare thy selfe and stande before me face to face.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
If thou canst, give me an answer: wait therefore; stand against me, and I will stand against thee.
If thou canst, give me an answer: wait therefore; stand against me, and I will stand against thee.
English Revised Version
If thou canst, answer thou me; set thy words in order before me, stand forth.
If thou canst, answer thou me; set thy words in order before me, stand forth.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If thou maist, answere thou to me, and stoonde thou ayens my face.
If thou maist, answere thou to me, and stoonde thou ayens my face.
Update Bible Version
If you can, answer me; Set [your words] in order before me, stand forth.
If you can, answer me; Set [your words] in order before me, stand forth.
Webster's Bible Translation
If thou canst answer me, set [thy words] in order before me, stand up.
If thou canst answer me, set [thy words] in order before me, stand up.
New King James Version
If you can answer me, Set your words in order before me; Take your stand.
If you can answer me, Set your words in order before me; Take your stand.
New Living Translation
Answer me, if you can; make your case and take your stand.
Answer me, if you can; make your case and take your stand.
New Life Bible
Prove me wrong if you can. Get ready to answer me, and take your stand.
Prove me wrong if you can. Get ready to answer me, and take your stand.
New Revised Standard
Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If thou art able to answer me, Set in order before me - take thy stand!
If thou art able to answer me, Set in order before me - take thy stand!
Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face.
If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face.
Revised Standard Version
Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
Young's Literal Translation
If thou art able -- answer me, Set in array before me -- station thyself.
If thou art able -- answer me, Set in array before me -- station thyself.
THE MESSAGE
"And if you think you can prove me wrong, do it. Lay out your arguments. Stand up for yourself! Look, I'm human—no better than you; we're both made of the same kind of mud. So let's work this through together; don't let my aggressiveness overwhelm you.
"And if you think you can prove me wrong, do it. Lay out your arguments. Stand up for yourself! Look, I'm human—no better than you; we're both made of the same kind of mud. So let's work this through together; don't let my aggressiveness overwhelm you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Refute me if you can; Array yourselves before me, take your stand.
"Refute me if you can; Array yourselves before me, take your stand.
Contextual Overview
1 Wherefore, Iob, I pray thee, heare my talke and hearken vnto all my wordes. 2 Beholde now, I haue opened my mouth: my tongue hath spoken in my mouth. 3 My words are in the vprightnesse of mine heart, & my lippes shall speake pure knowledge. 4 The Spirite of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almightie hath giuen me life. 5 If thou canst giue me answere, prepare thy selfe and stand before me. 6 Beholde, I am according to thy wish in Gods stead: I am also formed of the clay. 7 Beholde, my terrour shall not feare thee, neither shall mine hand be heauie vpon thee.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
If: Job 33:32, Job 33:33, Job 32:1, Job 32:12
set: Job 23:4, Job 23:5, Job 32:14, Psalms 50:21
stand: Acts 10:26
Reciprocal: Job 9:14 - choose Job 9:19 - who shall Job 13:19 - that will plead Job 34:33 - what
Cross-References
Genesis 30:2
Then Iaakobs anger was kindled against Rahel, and he sayde, Am I in Gods steade, which hath withholden from thee the fruite of the wombe?
Then Iaakobs anger was kindled against Rahel, and he sayde, Am I in Gods steade, which hath withholden from thee the fruite of the wombe?
Genesis 48:9
And Ioseph sayd vnto his father, They are my sonnes, which God hath giuen mee here. Then he sayd, I pray thee, bring them to me, that I may blesse them:
And Ioseph sayd vnto his father, They are my sonnes, which God hath giuen mee here. Then he sayd, I pray thee, bring them to me, that I may blesse them:
Ruth 4:13
So Boaz tooke Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in vnto her, the Lorde gaue that she conceiued, and bare a sonne.
So Boaz tooke Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in vnto her, the Lorde gaue that she conceiued, and bare a sonne.
1 Samuel 1:27
I prayed for this childe, and the Lord hath giuen me my desire which I asked of him.
I prayed for this childe, and the Lord hath giuen me my desire which I asked of him.
1 Chronicles 28:5
So of all my sonnes (for the Lord hath giuen me many sonnes) he hath euen chosen Salomon my sonne to sit vpo the throne of the kingdome of the Lord ouer Israel.
So of all my sonnes (for the Lord hath giuen me many sonnes) he hath euen chosen Salomon my sonne to sit vpo the throne of the kingdome of the Lord ouer Israel.
Isaiah 8:18
Beholde, I and the children whome the Lorde hath giuen me, are as signes and as wonders in Israel, by the Lord of hostes, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
Beholde, I and the children whome the Lorde hath giuen me, are as signes and as wonders in Israel, by the Lord of hostes, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
Hebrews 2:13
And againe, I will put my trust in him. And againe, Beholde, here am I, and the children which God hath giuen me.
And againe, I will put my trust in him. And againe, Beholde, here am I, and the children which God hath giuen me.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
If thou canst answer me,.... That is, when he had done speaking, after he had heard him out; if he thought he could make a reply to him, he gave him full liberty so to do, and tacitly suggests that he should give him an attentive and candid hearing, as he had requested of him:
set [thy words] in order before me; put them into the best form and order thou canst for thy self-defence, and level them at me; set them, as it were, in battle array against me; give them all the poignancy, strength, and three thou art capable of:
stand up; not out of veneration to him, but to denote freedom and boldness in himself; a presentation of himself with boldness, and standing and keeping his ground: the expressions are military; Mr. Broughton renders it, "stand to it".
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
If thou canst answer me - The meaning of this verse is this: âThe controversy between you and me, if you choose to reply, shall be conducted in the most equitable manner, and on the most equal terms. I will not attempt, as your three friends have done, to overwhelm you with reproaches; nor will I attempt to overawe you as God would do, so that you could not reply. I am a man like yourself, and desire that if anything can be said against what I have to advance, it should be offered with the utmost fairness and freedom.â
Stand up - That is, âmaintain your position, unless you are convinced by my arguments. I wish to carry nothing by mere authority or power.â
