Job 33:1
in Job 33“But now, O Job, hear my speech, and listen to all my words.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Howbeit, Job, I pray thee, hear my speech, And hearken to all my words.
KJV
Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
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This verse in Job 33
Commentary
5 notes on this verseWherefore, Job, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words. Behold, I have opened my mouth; let my tongue speak in my throat. But in the midst of these sentences which he utters, based on solid truth, he again bursts out into words of pride, saying, Wherefore, Job, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words. Behold, I have opened my mouth; let my tongue speak in my throat.
This site's exposition
O Job, hear my speech
on Job 33:1-4
“But now, O Job, hear my speech” addresses Job by name, the first speaker in the book to do so. Gill reads “My words are from an upright heart” as sincerity against the friends' speeches. Henry notes that Elihu asks only the honest hearing Job had asked of his friends.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
The text has said already that Eliud was angry against Job and his friends (32:2-3). After he has denounced the laziness of the friends of Job, now he begins to speak against Job himself, and therefore, he first gets his attention saying, "Hear, then, Job, …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Wherefore, Job, I pray thee - In the next chapter he addresses the three friends of Job. This is addressed particularly to him. My speeches - Hebrew, “my words” - מלה millâh. This is the usual word in the Aramaen languages to express a saying or discourse, though in Hebrew it is only a poetic form. The meaning is, not that he would address separate speeches, or distinct discourses, to Job, but that he called on him to attend to what he had to say.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְֽאוּלָ֗ם | veulam | and but | H199 → | 19 times |
| שְׁמַֽע־ | shema'- | hear | H8085 → | 1159 times |
| נָ֣א | na' | please | H4994 → | 404 times |
| אִיּ֣וֹב | ʾiyov | O Job | H347 → | 58 times |
| מִלָּ֑י | milai | words my | H4405 → | 38 times |
| וְֽכָל־ | vekhol | and all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| דְּבָרַ֥י | devarai | words my | H1697 → | 1440 times |
| הַאֲזִֽינָה׃ | haazinah | give ear to ! | H238 → | 41 times |
וְֽאוּלָ֗םand but
veulamH199 →19 times
שְׁמַֽע־hear
shema'-H8085 →1159 times
נָ֣אplease
na'H4994 →404 times
אִיּ֣וֹבO Job
ʾiyovH347 →58 times
מִלָּ֑יwords my
milaiH4405 →38 times
וְֽכָל־and all
vekholH3605 →5413 times
דְּבָרַ֥יwords my
devaraiH1697 →1440 times
הַאֲזִֽינָה׃give ear to !
haazinahH238 →41 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Mark 4:9Then Jesus said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
it leads to
- Mark 4:23–24
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”
- Matthew 11:15
He who has ears, let him hear.
- Revelation 3:22
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
- Luke 8:18
Pay attention, therefore, to how you listen. Whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”
- Revelation 3:6
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
- Mark 4:23–24
Through
Job 34:2“Hear my words, O wise men; give ear to me, O men of learning.
it leads to
- Proverbs 1:5
let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
- 1 Corinthians 14:20
Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
- Proverbs 1:5
Through
Job 13:6Hear now my argument, and listen to the plea of my lips.
it leads to
- Job 34:2
“Hear my words, O wise men; give ear to me, O men of learning.
- Job 34:2
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIII; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.