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New Life Version

Job 33:5

Prove me wrong if you can. Get ready to answer me, and take your stand.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- The Topic Concordance - Creation;   Life;   Man;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Pit;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Job, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Elihu (2);   Order;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
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.
King James Version
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.
New Century Version
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!
Amplified Bible
"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.
World English Bible
If you can, answer me; Set your words in order before me, and stand forth.
Geneva Bible (1587)
If thou canst giue me answere, prepare thy selfe and stand before me.
Legacy Standard Bible
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.
Contemporary English Version
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!
Darby Translation
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.
George Lamsa Translation
If you can answer me, then prepare yourself and stand up before me.
Good News Translation
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.
Literal Translation
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.
American Standard Version
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
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.
English Revised Version
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.
Update Bible Version
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.
New King James Version
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.
New Revised Standard
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!
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.
Young's Literal Translation
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Refute me if you can; Array yourselves before me, take your stand.

Contextual Overview

1 "But now, Job, hear what I say. Listen to all my words. 2 See, I open my mouth. My tongue in my mouth wants to speak. 3 My words come from my heart that is right. My lips speak in truth what I know. 4 The Spirit of God has made me. And the breath of the All-powerful gives me life. 5 Prove me wrong if you can. Get ready to answer me, and take your stand. 6 See, I belong to God like you. I also have been made from the clay. 7 See, you have no reason to be afraid of me. I should not make it hard for you.

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 Jacob became angry with Rachel. He said, "Am I taking God's place, Who has kept you from giving birth?"
Genesis 48:9
Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." So Israel said, "Bring them to me, so I may pray that good will come to them."
Ruth 4:13
So Boaz took Ruth. She became his wife, and he went in to her. The Lord made it possible for her to have a child and she gave birth to a son.
1 Samuel 1:27
I prayed for this boy, and the Lord has given me what I asked of Him.
1 Chronicles 28:5
The Lord has given me many sons. And of all my sons, He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the nation of the Lord over Israel.
Isaiah 8:18
See, I and the children the Lord has given me are something special to see and a wonder in Israel from the Lord of All, Who lives on Mount Zion.
Hebrews 2:13
And again He says, "I will put My trust in God." At another time He said, "Here I am with the children God gave 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: “The 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.”

Stand up - That is, “maintain your position, unless you are convinced by my arguments. I wish to carry nothing by mere authority or power.”


 
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