Job 33:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 33

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⁶Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

Job 33:6 —

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Cross-References

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Job 4:19
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Job 10:9
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Job 13:12
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Topics

Fasting Gentleness Humiliation and Self-Affliction Humility Meekness Modesty Mortification Self-Denial

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

Several arguments Elihu here uses to persuade Job not only to give him a patient hearing, but to believe that he designed him a good office, and to take it kindly, and be willing to receive the instructions he was now about to give him. Let Job consider, 1. That Elihu does not join with his three friends against him. He has, in the foregoing chapter, declared his dislike of their proceedings, disc…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. (See on Job 33:4; Job 31:35; 13:3, 20, 21). formed--Though acting as God’s representative, I am but a creature, like thyself. Arabic, “pressed together,” as a mass of clay by the potter, in forming a vessel [Umbreit]. Hebrew, “cut off,” as the portion taken from the clay to form it [Maurer].