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the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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King James Version

Job 33:32

If thou hast anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- The Topic Concordance - Desire;   Grace;   Justification;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Pit;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
But if you have anything to say, go ahead. Speak, for I am anxious to see you justified.
English Revised Version
If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.
Update Bible Version
If you have anything to say, answer me: Speak, for I desire to justify you.
New Century Version
If you have anything to say, answer me; speak up, because I want to prove you right.
New English Translation
If you have any words, reply to me; speak, for I want to justify you.
Webster's Bible Translation
If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.
World English Bible
If you have anything to say, answer me: Speak, for I desire to justify you.
Amplified Bible
"If you have anything to say, answer me; Speak, for I desire to justify you.
English Standard Version
If you have any words, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli if thou hast what thou schalt speke, answere thou to me, speke thou; for Y wole, that thou appere iust.
Berean Standard Bible
But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.
Contemporary English Version
though I would gladly listen to anything you say that proves you are right.
American Standard Version
If thou hast anything to say, answer me: Speak, for I desire to justify thee.
Bible in Basic English
If you have anything to say, give me an answer; for it is my desire that you may be judged free from sin.
Complete Jewish Bible
If you have something to say, answer me; speak, because I want to show that you are right.
Darby Translation
If thou hast anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
But if you have an answer, go ahead and speak. Tell me your argument. I would be happy to know that you are innocent!
JPS Old Testament (1917)
If thou hast any thing to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify thee.
King James Version (1611)
If thou hast any thing to say, answere me: speake, for I desire to iustifie thee.
New Life Bible
If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I want to make you right with God.
New Revised Standard
If you have anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
If there be matter, answere me, and speak: for I desire to iustifie thee.
George Lamsa Translation
If you have anything to say, answer me; for I desire that you may be justified.
Good News Translation
But if you have something to say, let me hear it; I would gladly admit you are in the right.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If there is anything to say, reply to me, Speak, for I desire to justify thee;
Douay-Rheims Bible
But if thou hast any thing to say, answer me, speak: for I would have thee to appear just.
Revised Standard Version
If you have anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But if thou hast any thing to say, then aunswere me, and speake: for I desire to iustifie thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
If thou hast words, answer me: speak, for I desire thee to be justified.
Christian Standard Bible®
But if you have something to say, answer me;speak, for I would like to justify you.
Hebrew Names Version
If you have anything to say, answer me: Speak, for I desire to justify you.
Lexham English Bible
If you have anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.
Literal Translation
If you have anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.
Young's Literal Translation
If there are words -- answer me, Speak, for I have a desire to justify thee.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf thou hast eny thinge to saye, then answere me and speake, for thy answere pleaseth me.
New American Standard Bible
"Then if you have anything to say, answer me; Speak, for I would take pleasure in justifying you.
New King James Version
If you have anything to say, answer me; Speak, for I desire to justify you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Then if you have anything to say, answer me; Speak, for I desire to justify you.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then if you have any speech, respond to me;Speak, for I desire to prove you righteous.

Contextual Overview

29 Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, 30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living. 31 Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak. 32 If thou hast anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee. 33 If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 15:4, Job 15:5, Job 21:27, Job 22:5-9, Job 27:5

Reciprocal: Job 13:19 - that will plead Job 33:5 - If Job 34:33 - what

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If thou hast anything to say, answer me,.... Any thing to object to what he had delivered, or any answer to return to what he had charged him with:

speak, for I desire to justify thee. Elihu was a fair antagonist, and gave free liberty, time and space, to make whatsoever reply he thought fit, and which he should patiently and attentively hear: his view was not victory, but that truth might come out, and take place and prevail, having nothing more at heart than Job's good; and could wish it would appear that he was in all respects a just man, and even in that in which he thought he was not just; but could he fairly acquit himself it would be a pleasure to him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If thou hast anything to say, answer me - In the previous verse, Elihu had asked that Job would hear all that he had to say. Yet here, in view of what he had said, he asks of him that if there were any thing from which he dissented, he would now express his dissent. We may suppose that he paused at this part of his speech, and as what he had said related particularly to Job, he felt that it was proper that he should have an opportunity to reply.

For I desire to justify thee - I would do you justice. I would not pervert what you have said, or attribute to you any wrong opinions or any improper motives Perhaps there may be included also a wish to vindicate him, if he possibly could. He did not desire to dispute for the sake of disputing, or to blame him if he could avoid it, but his aim was the truth; and if he could, he wished to vindicate the character of Job from the aspersions which had been cast upon it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 33:32. If thou hast any thing to say — If thou hast any objection to make against what I have already stated, now answer, now speak freely; for it is my desire that thou shouldst stand clear of all charges.


 
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