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Job 33:4

The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me 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.
Contemporary English Version
just as surely as the Spirit of God All-Powerful gave me the breath of 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.
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 Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words. 2 Behold now I have opened my mouth, let my tongue speak within my jaws. 3 My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence. 4 The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life. 5 If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face. 6 Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed. 7 But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence be burdensome to thee.

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
But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel; for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?
Genesis 43:30
And he made haste, because his heart was moved upon his brother, and tears gushed out: and going into his chamber, he wept.
Genesis 43:34
Taking the messes which they received of him: and the greater mess came to Benjamin, so that it exceeded by five parts. And they drank, and were merry with him.
Genesis 45:2
And he lifted up his voice with weeping, which the Egyptians, and all the house of Pharao heard.
Genesis 46:29
And when he was come thither, Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet his father in the same place: and seeing him, he fell upon his neck, and embracing him, wept.
Nehemiah 1:11
I beseech thee, O Lord, let thy ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants who desire to fear thy name: and direct thy servant this day, and give him mercy before this man. For I was the king’s cupbearer.
Job 2:12
And when they had lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him not, and crying out, they wept, and rending their garments, they sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
Psalms 34:4
(33-5) I sought the Lord, and he heard me; and he delivered me from all my troubles.
Proverbs 16:7
When the ways of man shall please the Lord, he will convert even his enemies to peace.
Proverbs 21:1
As the divisions of waters, so the heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord: whithersoever he will, he shall turn it.

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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