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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, He findeth occasions against me, He counteth me for His enemy;
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;
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, I pray thee thy servant hath found favour in thine eyes, so that thou hast magnified thy lovingkindness which thou hast performed with me in keeping alive my soul. - But, I, cannot escape to the mountain, lest calamity overtake me so shall I die.
So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; For I saw God face to face; and my soul was delivered,
Then he said, Let us break up and go, and let me go on before thee.
And he said unto him, My lord, is taking note, that, the children are tender, - and the flocks and the herds are giving suck with me, - and, should I overdrive them a single day, then would all the flocks die.
Then spake Judah unto him saying, - The man, did protest, to us saying - Ye shall not see my face, except, your brother, is with you.
And the days of Israel drew near that he must die, so he called for his son for Joseph and said to him - If, I pray thee I have found favour in thine eyes, place, I pray thee thy hand under my thigh, - so shalt thou deal with me in lovingkindness and faithfulness - Do not I pray thee, bury me in Egypt.
And, when the days of weeping for him were passed, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh saying, - If I pray you, I have found favour in your eyes, speak ye I pray you in the ears of Pharaoh saying:
Then she fell upon her face, and bowed herself to the ground, - and said unto him - Wherefore have I found favour in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take notice of me, seeing that, I, am, a stranger?
But David sware yet further, and said - Thy father, doth know, that I have found favour in thine eyes, therefore saith he, - Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he grieve; but, indeed, by the life of Yahweh, and by the life of thine own soul, surely there is but as it were a step betwixt me and death!
And he said - Good! I, will solemnise with thee a covenant, - but, one thing, must I ask of thee, saying - Thou shalt not see my face, except thou have brought in 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.
