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New American Standard Bible (1995)
Job 33:5
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Refute me if you can.Prepare your case against me; take your stand.
If you can, answer me; Set your words in order before me, and stand forth.
If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
Answer me if you can; get yourself ready and stand before me.
Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!
"Answer me, if you can; Set yourselves before me, take your stand.
"Refute me if you can; Line up against me, take your stand.
If you can, answer me; Set your words in order before me, and stand forth.
If thou canst giue me answere, prepare thy selfe and stand before me.
Respond to me if you can;Arrange yourselves before me, take your stand.
Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.
Now line up your arguments and prepare to face me.
So refute me, if you can; organize your words, take your stand!
If thou canst, answer me; array [thy words] before me: take thy stand.
Listen to me and answer if you can. Get your arguments ready to face me.
If you can answer me, then prepare yourself and stand up before me.
Answer me if you can. Prepare your arguments.
"If you are able, answer me. Present your argument before me; take your stand.
If you are able, answer me; set yourself in order before me. Stand up!
Yf thou cast, then geue me answere: prepare thy self to stode before me face to face.
If thou canst, answer thou me; Set thy words in order before me, stand forth.
If you are able, give me an answer; put your cause in order, and come forward.
If thou canst, answer thou me, set thy words in order before me, stand forth.
If thou canst, answere me, set thy wordes in order before me, stand vp.
If thou canst then geue me aunswere, prepare thy selfe and stande before me face to face.
If thou canst, give me an answer: wait therefore; stand against me, and I will stand against thee.
If thou canst, answer thou me; set thy words in order before me, stand forth.
If thou maist, answere thou to me, and stoonde thou ayens my face.
If you can, answer me; Set [your words] in order before me, stand forth.
If thou canst answer me, set [thy words] in order before me, stand up.
If you can answer me, Set your words in order before me; Take your stand.
Answer me, if you can; make your case and take your stand.
Prove me wrong if you can. Get ready to answer me, and take your stand.
Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
If thou art able to answer me, Set in order before me - take thy stand!
If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face.
Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
If thou art able -- answer me, Set in array before me -- station thyself.
"And if you think you can prove me wrong, do it. Lay out your arguments. Stand up for yourself! Look, I'm human—no better than you; we're both made of the same kind of mud. So let's work this through together; don't let my aggressiveness overwhelm you.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
If: Job 33:32, Job 33:33, Job 32:1, Job 32:12
set: Job 23:4, Job 23:5, Job 32:14, Psalms 50:21
stand: Acts 10:26
Reciprocal: Job 9:14 - choose Job 9:19 - who shall Job 13:19 - that will plead Job 34:33 - what
Cross-References
Then Jacob's anger burned against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." So he said, "Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them."
So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife, and he went in to her. And the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.
"For this boy I prayed, and the LORD has given me my petition which I asked of Him.
"Of all my sons (for the LORD has given me many sons), He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.
Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
And again, "I WILL PUT MY TRUST IN HIM." And again, "BEHOLD, I AND THE CHILDREN WHOM GOD HAS GIVEN ME."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
If thou canst answer me,.... That is, when he had done speaking, after he had heard him out; if he thought he could make a reply to him, he gave him full liberty so to do, and tacitly suggests that he should give him an attentive and candid hearing, as he had requested of him:
set [thy words] in order before me; put them into the best form and order thou canst for thy self-defence, and level them at me; set them, as it were, in battle array against me; give them all the poignancy, strength, and three thou art capable of:
stand up; not out of veneration to him, but to denote freedom and boldness in himself; a presentation of himself with boldness, and standing and keeping his ground: the expressions are military; Mr. Broughton renders it, "stand to it".
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
If thou canst answer me - The meaning of this verse is this: “The controversy between you and me, if you choose to reply, shall be conducted in the most equitable manner, and on the most equal terms. I will not attempt, as your three friends have done, to overwhelm you with reproaches; nor will I attempt to overawe you as God would do, so that you could not reply. I am a man like yourself, and desire that if anything can be said against what I have to advance, it should be offered with the utmost fairness and freedom.”
Stand up - That is, “maintain your position, unless you are convinced by my arguments. I wish to carry nothing by mere authority or power.”
