Job 33 · Verse 6

Job 33:6

Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
Job 33:6, King James Version

Job 33:6 in other translations

BSBI am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.
WEBBehold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.
ASVBehold, I am toward God even as thou art: I also am formed out of the clay.
YLTLo, I am, according to thy word, for God, From the clay I--I also, have been formed.
DARBYBehold, before God I am as thou; I also am formed out of the clay.
BBESee, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.
WebsterBehold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

What does Job 33:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
6. (See on Job 33:4; Job 31:35; 13:3, 20, 21). formed--Though acting as God's representative, I am but a creature, like thyself. Arabic, "pressed together," as a mass of clay by the potter, in forming a vessel [Umbreit]. Hebrew, "cut off," as the portion taken from the clay to form it [Maurer].

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay - Mr. Good, and before him none other that I have seen, has most probably hit the true meaning: - "Behold, I am thy fellow. I too was formed by God out of the clay." The word כפיך kephicha, which we translate according to thy wish, and which, if Hebrew, would mean like to thy mouth; he considers as pure Arabic, with a Hebrew postfix, (Arabic) kefoo, signifying fellow, equal, like. Taken in this way, the passage is very plain, only לאל lael, by or through God, must be added to the last clause of the verse instead of the first, as Mr. Good has properly done.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · 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 33:6 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.

הֵן\־hen-here!H2005
אֲנִ֣י'a.NiIH589
כְפִ֣יךָkhe.Fi.kha[am] like mouth yourH6310
לָאֵ֑לla.'Elto <the> GodH410
מֵ֝חֹ֗מֶרme.Cho.merfrom clayH2563
קֹרַ֥צְתִּיko.Ratz.tiI was nipped offH7169
גַם\־gam-alsoH1571
אָֽנִי\׃'A.niIH589

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

Cross references for Job 33:6

  • Job 4:19

    How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

  • Job 10:9

    Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

  • 2 Corinthians 5:1

    For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

  • Job 20:22

    In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

  • Job 31:35

    Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

  • Job 23:3-4

    Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

  • Job 13:12

    Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

  • Job 9:32-35

    For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

  • Genesis 3:19

    In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

  • Genesis 30:2

    And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

  • 2 Corinthians 5:20

    Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

  • Genesis 2:7

    And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I am.
9:32-35; 13:3; 20:22; 23:3,4; 31:35
wish. Heb. mouth. in.
Ge 30:2; Ex 4:16; 2Co 5:20
I also.
4:19; 10:9; 13:12; Ge 2:7; 3:19; 2Co 5:1
formed. Heb. cut.

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Context

  • 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.

  • Job 33:7

    Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.

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Job 33:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Heme aquí á mí en lugar de Dios, conforme á tu dicho: de lodo soy yo también formado.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Voici, je suis comme toi quant à ✶Dieu, je suis fait d’argile, moi aussi.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Siehe, ich bin Gottes, wie du; vom Tone abgekniffen bin auch ich.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ecce, et me sicut et te fecit Deus, et de eodem luto ego quoque formatus sum.