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Elihu Rebukes Job

Job 33:25

In 11 translations

BSB
then his flesh is refreshed like a child’s; he returns to the days of his youth.
KJV
His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:a child’s: Heb. childhood
WEB
His flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.
ASV
His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s; He returneth to the days of his youth.
LSV
Fresher [is] his flesh than a child’s, || He returns to the days of his youth.
YLT
Fresher [is] his flesh than a child's, He returneth to the days of his youth.
DBY
His flesh shall be fresher than in childhood; he shall return to the days of his youth.
DRC
His flesh is consumed with punishment, let him return to the days of his youth.
GNV
Then shall his flesh be as fresh as a childes, and shall returne as in the dayes of his youth.
JPS
His flesh is tenderer than a child's; he returneth to the days of his youth;
LXXE
And he will make his flesh tender as that of a babe, and he will restore him among men in his full strength.

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Original-language editions

WLC
רֻֽטֲפַ֣שׁ בְּשָׂר֣וֹ מִנֹּ֑עַר יָ֝שׁ֗וּב לִימֵ֥י עֲלוּמָֽיו׃
LXX-Br
Ἁπαλυνεῖ δὲ αὐτοῦ τὰς σάρκας ὥσπερ νηπίου, ἀποκαταστήσει δὲ αὐτὸν ἀνδρωθέντα ἐν ἀνθρώποις.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 103:5who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
  • 2 Kings 5:14So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child, and he was clean.
  • Joshua 14:10–11Now behold, as the LORD promised, He has kept me alive these forty-five years since He spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old, still as strong today…
  • Deuteronomy 34:7Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.
  • Job 42:16After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
  • Hosea 2:15There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

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