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Job 33:10
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But he finds reasons to oppose me;he regards me as his enemy.
Behold, he finds occasions against me, He counts me for his enemy:
Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,
Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy,
But God has found fault with me; he considers me his enemy.
Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy!
'Behold, God finds pretexts against me; He counts me as His enemy.
'Behold, He invents criticisms against me; He counts me as His enemy.
Behold, he finds occasions against me, He counts me for his enemy:
Lo, he hath found occasions against me, and counted me for his enemie.
Behold, He finds reasons for opposition against me;He counts me as His enemy.
Yet He finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.
You claim that God has made you his enemy,
Yet [God] finds pretexts for accusing me; he regards me as his enemy.
Lo, he findeth occasions of hostility against me, he counteth me for his enemy;
But God found an excuse to attack me. He treats me like an enemy.
Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy.
But God finds excuses for attacking me and treats me like an enemy.
Look, he finds fault against me; he reckons me as his enemy;
behold, He finds alienation on me; He considers me His enemy;
But lo, he hath pyked a quarell agaynst me, & taketh me for his enemy:
Behold, he findeth occasions against me, He counteth me for his enemy;
See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;
Behold, hee findeth occasions against mee, hee counteth mee for his enemie.
But lo, he hath piked a quarell against me, and taketh me for his enemie.
Yet he has discovered a charge against me, and he has reckoned me as an adversary.
Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy;
`For God foond querels in me, therfor he demyde me enemy to hym silf.
Look, he finds occasions against me, He counts me for his enemy:
Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,
Yet He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy;
God is picking a quarrel with me, and he considers me his enemy.
But see, God finds things against me. He thinks of me as someone who hates Him.
Look, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy;
Lo! occasions of hostility, would he find against me, He counteth me an enemy to him;
Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath counted me for his enemy.
Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy;
Lo, occasions against me He doth find, He doth reckon me for an enemy to Him,
'Behold, He invents pretexts against me; He counts me as His enemy.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
he findeth: Job 9:30, Job 9:31, Job 10:15-17, Job 13:25, Job 14:16, Job 34:5
he counteth: Job 13:24, Job 16:9, Job 19:11, Job 30:21, Job 31:35
Cross-References
behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shown unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest the evil overtake me, and I die.
And Jacob asked him, and said: 'Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.' And he said: 'Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?' And he blessed him there.
And he said: 'Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.'
And he said unto him: 'My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds giving suck are a care to me; and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
And Judah spoke unto him, saying: 'The man did earnestly forewarn us, saying: Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
And the time drew near that Israel must die; and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him: 'If now I have found favour in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt.
And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke unto the house of Pharaoh, saying: 'If now I have found favour in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying:
Then she fell on her face, and bowed down to the ground, and said unto him: 'Why have I found favour in thy sight, that thou shouldest take cognizance of me, seeing I am a foreigner?'
And David swore moreover, and said: 'Thy father knoweth well that I have found favour in thine eyes; and he saith: Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved; but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.'
And he said: 'Well; I will make a league with thee; but one thing I require of thee, that is, thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face.'
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Behold, he findeth occasions against me,.... That is, sought in order to find them; so Job in some places suggests, that God inquired after his sins, and sought diligently after them, that he might have something to bring against him; and because he could not find great sins, gross enormities, he sought after lesser sins; so some render the word, "staggerings", "totterings" h; frailties, failings, and infirmities; and because he could find none of late of a very heinous nature, he went back as far as the sins of his youth; see
Job 10:6; and this in order to pick a quarrel with him; and so Mr. Broughton renders the words, "lo, he picketh quarrels against me"; or that he might have just reason to depart from him, or to break from him, or to break off friendship with him, or to break him to pieces in his estate, family, and health; all which senses some observe the words will bear: but it would be needless for God to seek in order to find occasions against men; there is enough ready at hand, the sins that are about them; and to represent the Lord as dealing thus with good men is to represent him as acting contrary to the declarations and methods of his grace; yea, as doing what wicked men do to good men, as the enemies of David, Daniel, and Jeremiah, did to them; nay, even as Satan himself does, who goes about and seeks for, and picks up accusations against the saints; this must be owned to be a very irreverent and unbecoming expression of Job's, and for which he deserved to be sharply rebuked, as well as for some following ones, and for which he afterwards was thoroughly humbled:
he counteth me for his enemy; this he had often said, but very wrongly; Job 10:6- :, and
Job 10:6- :, and
Job 10:6- :.
h תנואות "vacillationes", Cocceius; "aut mutationes", Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Behold, he findeth occasions against me - That is, God. This is not exactly the language of Job, though much that he had said had seemed to imply this. The idea is, that God sought opportunity to oppose him; that he was desirous to find in him some ground or reason for punishing him; that he wished to be hostile to him, and was narrowly on the watch to find an opportunity which would justify his bringing calamity upon him. The word rendered “occasions” - תנואה tenû'âh, is from נוא nû', in the Hiphil, הניא hāniy' - to refuse, decline; to hinder, restrain, Numbers 30:6, Numbers 30:9,Numbers 30:12; and hence, the noun means, a holding back, a withdrawal, an alienation; and hence, the idea is, that God sought to be alienated from Job. The Vulgate renders it, “He seeks complaints (querales) against me.” The Septuagint, μέμψιν mempsin - accusation. Umbreit, Feindshaft, enmity. So Gesenius and Noyes. “He counteth me for his enemy.” This is language which Job had used; see Job 19:11.
