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Elihu Rebukes Job

Job 33:5

In 11 translations

BSB
Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.
KJV
If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
WEB
If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand up.
ASV
If thou canst, answer thou me; Set thy words in order before me, stand forth.
LSV
If you are able—answer me, || Set in array before me—station yourself.
YLT
If thou art able — answer me, Set in array before me — station thyself.
DBY
If thou canst, answer me; array [thy words] before me: take thy stand.
DRC
If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face.
GNV
If thou canst giue me answere, prepare thy selfe and stand before me.
JPS
If thou canst, answer thou me, set thy words in order before me, stand forth.
LXXE
If thou canst, give me an answer: wait therefore; stand against me, and I will stand against thee.

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Original-language editions

WLC
אִם־תּוּכַ֥ל הֲשִׁיבֵ֑נִי עֶרְכָ֥ה לְ֝פָנַ֗י הִתְיַצָּֽבָה׃
LXX-Br
Ἐὰν δύνῃ, δός μοι ἀπόκρισιν, πρὸς ταῦτα ὑπόμεινον, στῆθι κατʼ ἐμὲ, καὶ ἐγὼ κατὰ σέ.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 33:32–33But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you. But if not, then listen to me; be quiet, and I will teach you wisdom.”
  • Job 32:14But Job has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.
  • Job 32:1So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
  • Psalms 50:21You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
  • Job 23:4–5I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments. I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.
  • Job 13:18Behold, now that I have prepared my case, I know that I will be vindicated.
  • Job 32:12I paid you full attention. But no one proved Job wrong; not one of you rebutted his arguments.
  • Acts 10:26But Peter helped him up. “Stand up,” he said, “I am only a man myself.”

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