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King James Version

Job 33:26

He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Agency;   Conviction;   God;   God Continued...;   Joy;   Penitent;   Philosophy;   Prayer;   Repentance;   Righteousness;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Divine;   Favour, Divine;   Favour-Disfavour;   God;   The Topic Concordance - Deliverance;   Grace;   Prayer;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Favour of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Birth;   Job;   Prayer;   Proverbs, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;   Pit;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Advocate ;   Justification (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
When he prays to God, he will be accepted. And God will receive him with joy and restore him to good standing.
English Revised Version
He prayeth unto God, and he is favourable unto him; so that he seeth his face with joy: and he restoreth unto man his righteousness.
Update Bible Version
He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, So that he sees his face with joy: And he restores to common man his righteousness.
New Century Version
That person will pray to God, and God will listen to him. He will see God's face and will shout with happiness. And God will set things right for him again.
New English Translation
He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God's face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness.
Webster's Bible Translation
He shall pray to God, and he will be favorable to him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render to man his righteousness.
World English Bible
He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, So that he sees his face with joy: He restores to man his righteousness.
Amplified Bible
"He will pray to God, and He shall be favorable to him, So that he looks at His face with joy; For God restores to man His righteousness [that is, his right standing with God—with its joys].
English Standard Version
then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He schal biseche God, and he schal be quemeful to hym; and he schal se his face in hertly ioye, and he schal yelde to man his riytfulnesse.
Berean Standard Bible
He will pray to God and find favor; he will see His face and shout for joy, and God will restore the righteousness of that man.
Contemporary English Version
and we ask God to accept us. Then we joyfully worship God, and we are rewarded because we are innocent.
American Standard Version
He prayeth unto God, and he is favorable unto him, So that he seeth his face with joy: And he restoreth unto man his righteousness.
Bible in Basic English
He makes his prayer to God, and he has mercy on him; he sees God's face with cries of joy; he gives news of his righteousness to men;
Complete Jewish Bible
He prays to God and is accepted by him, so that he sees [God's] face with joy, and [God] repays the man for his righteousness.
Darby Translation
He shall pray unto +God, and he will receive him with favour; and he shall see his face with shoutings, and he will render unto man his righteousness.
Easy-to-Read Version
He will pray and God will answer. He will worship God and shout with joy. He will again stand as right before God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He prayeth unto God, and He is favourable unto him; so that he seeth His face with joy;
King James Version (1611)
He shall pray vnto God, and hee will be fauourable vnto him, and hee shall see his face with ioy: for hee will render vnto man his righteousnesse.
New Life Bible
Then he will pray to God, and God will be pleased with him. He will see His face with joy. And God will make man right with Him again.
New Revised Standard
then he prays to God, and is accepted by him, he comes into his presence with joy, and God repays him for his righteousness.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He shall pray vnto God, and he will be fauourable vnto him, and he shall see his face with ioy: for he will render vnto ma his righteousnes.
George Lamsa Translation
And he shall pray to God, and he will hear him and be pleased with him, and God shall appear before him with glory; for he will render to men his righteousness.
Good News Translation
when they pray, God will answer; they will worship God with joy; God will set things right for them again.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He made supplication unto GOD, who hath accepted him, and he hath beheld his face with a shout of triumph, Thus hath he given back to man his righteousness.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall pray to God, and he will be gracious to him: and he shall see his face with joy, and he will render to man his justice.
Revised Standard Version
then man prays to God, and he accepts him, he comes into his presence with joy. He recounts to men his salvation,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He shall pray vnto God, and he will be fauorable vnto him, and he shall see his face with ioy, for he will render vnto man his righteousnesse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he shall pray to the Lord, and his prayer shall be accepted of him; he shall enter with a cheerful countenance, with a full expression of praise: for he will render to men their due.
Christian Standard Bible®
He will pray to God, and God will delight in him.That person will see his face with a shout of joy,and God will restore his righteousness to him.
Hebrew Names Version
He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, So that he sees his face with joy: He restores to man his righteousness.
Lexham English Bible
He prays to God, then he accepts him, and he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he repays to the human being his righteousness.
Literal Translation
He will pray to God, and He will accept him, and he will see His face with exultation; for He will restore to man his righteousness.
Young's Literal Translation
He maketh supplication unto God, And He accepteth him. And he seeth His face with shouting, And He returneth to man His righteousness.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For yf he submitte himself vnto God, he is gracious, & sheweth him his countenaunce ioyfully, & rewardeth man for his rightuousnes.
THE MESSAGE
"Or, you may fall on your knees and pray—to God's delight! You'll see God's smile and celebrate, finding yourself set right with God. You'll sing God's praises to everyone you meet, testifying, ‘I messed up my life— and let me tell you, it wasn't worth it. But God stepped in and saved me from certain death. I'm alive again! Once more I see the light!'
New American Standard Bible
Then he will pray to God, and He will accept him, So that he may see His face with joy, And He will restore His righteousness to that person.
New King James Version
He shall pray to God, and He will delight in him, He shall see His face with joy, For He restores to man His righteousness.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then he will pray to God, and He will accept him, That he may see His face with joy, And He may restore His righteousness to man.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then he will entreat God, and He will accept him,And he will see His face with joyful shouts,And He may restore His righteousness to man.

Contextual Overview

19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: 20 So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat. 21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out. 22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. 23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness: 24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. 25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth: 26 He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness. 27 He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; 28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

pray: 2 Kings 20:2-5, 2 Chronicles 33:12, 2 Chronicles 33:13, 2 Chronicles 33:19, Psalms 6:1-9, Psalms 28:1, Psalms 28:2, Psalms 28:6, Psalms 30:7-11, Psalms 41:8-11, Psalms 50:15, Psalms 91:15, Psalms 116:1-6, Isaiah 30:19, Jeremiah 33:3, Jonah 2:2-7, Acts 9:11

and he shall: Job 42:8, Job 42:9, Numbers 6:25, Numbers 6:26, Psalms 4:6, Psalms 4:7, Psalms 16:11, Psalms 30:5, Psalms 67:1, Acts 2:28, Jude 1:24

he will: Job 34:11, 1 Samuel 26:23, Psalms 18:20, Psalms 62:12, Proverbs 24:12, Matthew 10:41, Matthew 10:42, Hebrews 11:26

Reciprocal: Genesis 33:10 - I have seen Psalms 119:135 - Make John 14:8 - show Hebrews 12:14 - no man James 5:13 - any among Revelation 1:7 - and every Revelation 22:4 - they

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He shall pray unto God,.... As the former verse expresses the condition of the body of the man recovered from sickness, this the frame of his soul, and the spiritual blessings enjoyed by him: some understand this of his praying in the time of his affliction, and consider it as one means of his recovery; and indeed a time of affliction is a time for prayer; and which brings a good man to it, who in health and prosperity has been negligent of it; such an one will make his application to God for deliverance, and not to the creature; and it is his mercy and privilege he has a God to pray unto, who can and will help him. But according to the course and connection of the words, it seems rather to respect what the good man would do, and the frame he would be in upon his recovery; who would entreat the Lord to make him thankful the mercy received, and accept of his thanksgiving for the same; that his affliction might appear to be sanctified unto him, and that he is much the better for it, more holy and more humble; and that he would manifest his pardoning grace to him for all the sins and transgressions he had been guilty of, his murmurings and repinings, and everything else during his affliction; and that he may make use of his health and strength given him in the service of God, and for the glory of his name;

and he will be favourable to him; which, if understood of the time of affliction, it may be interpreted of his laying no more on him than he will enable him to bear, and supporting him under it; of granting his gracious presence in it, and of his taking notice of him, visiting him, knowing, owning, and choosing him in the furnace of affliction, and manifesting his care unto him; and of the deliverance of him out of it. But if it respects the man as recovered out of affliction, it denotes further discoveries of the special care and favour of God to him, which are very enlivening and refreshing, strengthening and supporting; and of his gracious acceptance of his person, and of his sacrifices of prayer, praise, and thanksgiving, through Christ the Mediator and messenger of the covenant;

and he shall see his face with joy: that is, either God who is favourable to him, he looks with a smiling countenance upon the man now recovered, who before seemed to look upon him with frowns in his countenance, there being a change in the outward dispensations of his providence towards him, though none in his heart: his countenance beholds the upright with pleasure, whether they see it or not; he looks upon his people in Christ with the utmost complacency and delight, and particularly when they come to him in the exercise of grace, with their prayers, praises, and thanksgivings. Or the man recovered from illness, God being favourable to him, he beholds the face of God with joy, who perhaps had hid it from him in his affliction, which caused trouble; but now showing his face and favour, it causes joy and exultation, even a jubilee in his soul. He beholds him in Christ as the God of grace and peace; and through him can come to him, and look him in the face with comfort and pleasure, as nothing is more delightful to him than the light of his countenance;

for he will render unto man his righteousness: not the sick man recovered render to another man what is his right and due, or what he may have wronged him of; for which being reproved by the affliction, and convicted of, is desirous of making restitution: but God, who will render, return, or restore to the man recovered his righteousness, which is the foundation of his joy; not render to him according to his own righteousness, as the Targum, which would be but a poor recompense if strictly given; nor restore to him the righteousness he lost in Adam, which is but a creature righteousness; but the righteousness of Christ, as Mr. Broughton, which is the good man's or the believer's in Christ, because wrought out for him, imputed to him, and bestowed as a free gift on him. Now though this righteousness can never be lost, being an everlasting one, yet a sense of interest in it may, which is returned, restored, and rendered to a man, when that righteousness is afresh revealed to him from faith to faith; the consequence of which is peace and comfort, joy and triumph.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He shall pray unto God ... - That is, when he fully understands the design of affliction; and when his mind is brought to a proper state of penitence for his past conduct, then he will find God merciful and ready to show him kindness.

And he shall see his face with joy - The face of God. That is, he shall be able to look up to him with peace and comfort. This language is similar to that which is so frequently employed in the Scriptures, in which God is said to lift upon us the light of his countenance. The meaning here is, that the afflicted man would be again permitted to look by faith on God, being reconciled to him, and would see in his face no indication of displeasure.

For he will render unto man his righteousness - He will deal with him in justice and equity. When he sees evidence of penitence, he will treat him accordingly; and if in the afflicted man he discerns true piety, he will regard and treat him as his friend. The meaning is, that if there is in the sufferer any sincere love to God, he will not be indifferent to it, but will treat him as possessing it. This is still true, and universally true. If there is in the heart of one who is afflicted any real piety, God will not treat him as an impenitent sinner, but will manifest his mercy to him, and show to him the favors which he confers only on his friends.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 33:26. He shall pray unto God — Being now adopted into the heavenly family, and become a new creature, he shall have the spirit of prayer, which is indeed the very breath and language of the new or spiritual life.

He will be favourable unto him — He shall manifest his good will to him; he shall live under the influences of Divine grace.

He shall see his face with joy — He shall know that God is reconciled to him; and this shall fill him with joy, בתרועה bithruah, with exultation: for, "being justified by faith, he has peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom he has received the atonement; and REJOICES in the hope of the glory of God."

He will render unto man his righteousness. — So good and gracious is the Lord, that by his grace he will enable this convert to live to his glory, to bring forth all the fruits of the Spirit, and then reward him for the work, as if it were done by his own might.


 
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