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Selected Verse: Job 33:1 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Job 33:1 |
Strong Concordance |
Wherefore [0199], Job [0347], I pray thee, hear [08085] my speeches [04405], and hearken [0238] to all my words [01697]. |
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King James |
Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Wherefore, Job, I pray thee - In the next chapter he addresses the three friends of Job. This is addressed particularly to him.
My speeches - Hebrew, "my words" - מלה millâh. This is the usual word in the Aramaen languages to express a saying or discourse, though in Hebrew it is only a poetic form. The meaning is, not that he would address separate speeches, or distinct discourses, to Job, but that he called on him to attend to what he had to say. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
1 But nevertheless, O Job, hear my speeches,
And hearken to all my words.
2 Behold now, I have opened my mouth,
My tongue speaketh in my palate.
3 Sincere as my heart are my utterances,
And knowledge that is pure my lips declare.
The issue of the impartial discussion which Elihu designs to effect, is subject to this one condition, that Job listens to it, and observes not merely this or that, but the whole of its connected contents; and in this sense ואוּלם, which is used just as in Job 1:11; Job 11:5; Job 12:7; Job 13:4; Job 14:18; Job 17:10, in the signification verumtamen, stands at the head of this new turn in his speech. Elihu addresses Job, as none of the previous speakers have done, by name. With הנּה־נא (as Job 13:18), he directs Job's observation to that which he is about to say: he has already opened his mouth, his tongue is already in motion, - circumstantial statement, which solemnly inaugurate what follows with a consciousness of its importance. Job has felt the absence of אמרי־ישׁר, Job 6:25, in the speeches of the three; but Elihu can at the outset ensure his word being "the sincerity of his heart," i.e., altogether heartily well meant: and - thus it would be to be translated according to the accentuation - the knowledge of my lips, they (my lips) utter purely. But "the knowledge of the lips" is a notion that seems strange with this translation, and בּרוּר is hardly intended thus adverbially. דּעת, contrary to the accentuation, is either taken as the accusative of the obj., and בּרוּר as the acc. of the predicate (masc. as Pro 2:10; Pro 14:6): knowledge my lips utter pure; or interpreted, if one is not willing to depart from the accentuation, with Seb. Schmid: scientiam labiorum meorum quod attinet (the knowledge proceeding from my lips), puram loquentur sc. labia mea. The notions of purity and choice coincide in ברור (comp. Arab. ibtarra, to separate one's self; asfa, to prove one's self pure, and to select). The perff., Job 33:2, describe what is begun, and so, as relatively past, extending into the present. |
2 Behold, now I have opened [06605] my mouth [06310], my tongue [03956] hath spoken [01696] in my mouth [02441].
6 A scorner [03887] seeketh [01245] wisdom [02451], and findeth it not: but knowledge [01847] is easy [07043] unto him that understandeth [0995].
10 When wisdom [02451] entereth [0935] into thine heart [03820], and knowledge [01847] is pleasant [05276] unto thy soul [05315];
25 How forcible [04834] are right [03476] words [0561]! but what doth your arguing [03198] reprove [03198]?
18 Behold now, I have ordered [06186] my cause [04941]; I know [03045] that I shall be justified [06663].
10 But [0199] as for you all, do ye return [07725], and come now [0935]: for I cannot find [04672] one wise [02450] man among you.
18 And surely [0199] the mountain [02022] falling [05307] cometh to nought [05034], and the rock [06697] is removed [06275] out of his place [04725].
4 But [0199] ye are forgers [02950] of lies [08267], ye are all physicians [07495] of no value [0457].
7 But [0199] ask [07592] now the beasts [0929], and they shall teach [03384] thee; and the fowls [05775] of the air [08064], and they shall tell [05046] thee:
5 But [0199] oh that [05414] God [0433] would speak [01696], and open [06605] his lips [08193] against thee;
11 But [0199] put forth [07971] thine hand [03027] now, and touch [05060] all that he hath, and he will curse [01288] [03808] thee to thy face [06440].