The Meaning of Job 33:5 Explained

Job 33:5

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

YLT: If thou art able -- answer me, Set in array before me -- station thyself.

Darby: If thou canst, answer me; array thy words before me: take thy stand.

ASV: If thou canst, answer thou me; Set thy words in order before me, stand forth.

Discover Job 33:5

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 33:5?

MEANING: What does Job 33:5 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 33:5 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 33:5?

What is the context of Job 33:5?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 33:5 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 33:1-33 - The Interpreter

It is not wonderful that Elihu has been mistaken for the Mediator Himself, so helpfully does he interpose between Job and his Maker. He dwells especially on his own likeness to Job in his manhood, and quotes this as the reason why he could specially help him: I also am formed out of the clay. So also our High Priest is man. Elihu takes up Job's words protesting his innocence, and he insists that Job was not right in those protestations, or in the conclusions that he drew from them.

Then follows one of the grandest passages in the book. Elihu tells how God speaks in nature and through conscience, and is often disregarded; and how then he speaks by revelation, opening the ears of men to withdraw them from their purpose. He shows that God often lays a man upon a bed of pain, that He may speak to his heart. Happy is the afflicted if an interpreter stands beside him to point the path to repentance. Finally, broken and penitent, he turns back to God, and sees His face with joy, and sings before men the story of his restoration. Thus Elihu argues that affliction is often sent as discipline to read to man God's deepest truth. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 33

¹ Elihu offers himself instead of God to reason with Job
⁸ He excuses God from giving man an account of his ways, by his greatness
¹⁴ God calls man to repentance by visions, by afflictions, and by his ministry
³¹ He incites Job to attention

What do the individual words in Job 33:5 mean?

If you can answer me Set [your words] in order before me take your stand

אִם־ תּוּכַ֥ל הֲשִׁיבֵ֑נִי עֶרְכָ֥ה לְ֝פָנַ֗י הִתְיַצָּֽבָה

הֲשִׁיבֵ֑נִי	can answer me
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperative, masculine singular, first person common singular Root: שׁוּב Sense: to return, turn back.
עֶרְכָ֥ה	Set [your words] in order
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, masculine singular, third person feminine singular Root: עָרַךְ Sense: to arrange, set or put or lay in order, set in array, prepare, order, ordain, handle, furnish, esteem, equal, direct, compare.
לְ֝פָנַ֗י	before me
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine plural construct, first person common singular Root: לִפְנֵי Sense: face.
הִתְיַצָּֽבָה	take your stand
Parse: Verb, Hitpael, Imperative, masculine singular, third person feminine singular Root: יָצַב Sense: to place, set, stand, set or station oneself, present oneself.

What are the major concepts related to Job 33:5?

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