Job 33 · Verse 5

Job 33:5

If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
Job 33:5, King James Version

Job 33:5 in other translations

BSBRefute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.
WEBIf you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand up.
ASVIf thou canst, answer thou me; Set thy words in order before me, stand forth.
YLTIf thou art able--answer me, Set in array before me--station thyself.
DARBYIf thou canst, answer me; array thy words before me: take thy stand.
BBEIf you are able, give me an answer; put your cause in order, and come forward.
WebsterIf thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.

What does Job 33:5 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
5. Images from a court of justice. stand up--alluding to Job's words (Job 30:20).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 33:1-7

Job had desired a judge to decide his appeal. Elihu was one according to his wish, a man like himself. If we would rightly convince men, it must be by reason, not by terror; by fair argument, not by a heavy hand.

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Job 33:5 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אִם\־'im-ifH518
תּוּכַ֥לtu.Khalyou will be ableH3201
הֲשִׁיבֵ֑נִיha.shi.Ve.nirespond to meH7725
עֶרְכָ֥ה'er.Khaharrange !H6186
לְ֝פָנַ֗יle.fa.Nai<to> before meH6440
הִתְיַצָּֽבָה\׃hit.ya.Tza.vahtake your stand !H3320

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 33:5

  • Job 33:32-33

    If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee. If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.

  • Acts 10:26

    But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.

  • Job 23:4-5

    I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

  • Job 13:18

    Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

  • Job 32:14

    Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.

  • Job 32:1

    So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

  • Psalms 50:21

    These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

  • Job 32:12

    Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
If.
32,33; 32:1,12
set.
23:4,5; 32:14; Ps 50:21
stand.
Ac 10:26

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 33:4

    The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

  • Job 33:5

    If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.

  • Job 33:6

    Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

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Job 33:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Si pudieres, respóndeme; dispón tus palabras, está delante de mí.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Si tu le peux, réponds-moi; arrange des paroles devant moi, tiens-toi là!
German
Elberfelder 1871		Wenn du kannst, so antworte mir; rüste dich vor mir, stelle dich!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Si potes, responde mihi, et adversus faciem meam consiste.