Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.
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Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.
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Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,
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Behold, He findeth occasions against me, He counteth me for His enemy;
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Passages linked to Job 33:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Job 13:24-25 Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy? Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
- Job 19:11 He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
- Job 9:30-31 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye, yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
- Job 10:15-17 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction. If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me. You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
- Job 14:16 But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
- Job 16:9 He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
- Job 30:21 You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.
- Job 31:35 oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!
- Job 34:5 For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 33:10 Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he…
Job 33:10 Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,
Ver. 10. Behold, he findeth occasions against me] Or, breaches; he picks quarrels with me, and would fain find out somewhat in my carriage wherefore to break friendship with me, and to break me in pieces. But did Job ever say in this sort? Not expressly so; but by consequence, and to the same purpose, Job 9:17; Job 13:24; Job 14:17; Job 16:9; Job 19:11.
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He counteth me for his enemy] This indeed he had said, and somewhat more, Job 13:24; Job 16:9; Job 30:21, as if God, of his mere pleasure, had made cruel wars upon him, and exercised all kind of hostility against him, as a vanquished enemy. {See Trapp on "Job 13:24"} {See Trapp on "Job 19:11"}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain He picketh quarrels with me, and watcheth over and…
He picketh quarrels with me, and watcheth over and searcheth after all my errors and frailties, as Job said, Job 10:6; 14:16,17; severely marking what is amiss in me, that thence he may take occasion to punish me worse than mine iniquities deserve. Though I have endeavoured to be his friend and faithful servant all my days, yet he treats me like an enemy. This Job said Job 13:24; 19:11.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Behold, he findeth occasions against me,.... That is, sought…
Behold, he findeth occasions against me,.... That is, sought in order to find them; so Job in some places suggests, that God inquired after his sins, and sought diligently after them, that he might have something to bring against him; and because he could not find great sins, gross enormities, he sought after lesser sins; so some render the word, "staggerings", "totterings" (h); frailties, failings, and infirmities; and because he could find none of late of a very heinous nature, he went back as far as the sins of his youth; see Job 10:6; and this in order to pick a quarrel with him; and so Mr. Broughton renders the words, "lo, he picketh quarrels against me"; or that he might have just reason to depart from him, or to break from him, or to break off friendship with him, or to break him to pieces in his estate, family, and health; all which senses some observe the words will bear: but it would be needless for God to seek in order to find occasions against men; there is enough ready at hand, the sins that are about them; and to represent the Lord as dealing thus with good men is to represent him as acting contrary to the declarations and methods of his grace; yea, as doing what wicked men do to good men, as the enemies of David, Daniel, and Jeremiah, did to them; nay, even as Satan himself does, who goes about and seeks for, and picks up accusations against the saints; this must be owned to be a very irreverent and unbecoming expression of Job's, and for which he deserved to be sharply rebuked, as well as for some following ones, and for which he afterwards was thoroughly humbled:
he counteth me for his enemy; this he had often said, but very wrongly; See Gill on Job 13:24, and See Gill on Job 16:9, and See Gill on Job 19:11.
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(h) "vacillationes", Cocceius; "aut mutationes", Michaelis.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Behold, he findeth occasions against me - That is,…
Behold, he findeth occasions against me - That is, God. This is not exactly the language of Job, though much that he had said had seemed to imply this. The idea is, that God sought opportunity to oppose him; that he was desirous to find in him some ground or reason for punishing him; that he wished to be hostile to him, and was narrowly on the watch to find an opportunity which would justify his bringing calamity upon him. The word rendered “occasions” - תנואה tenû'âh, is from נוא nû', in the Hiphil, הניא hāniy' - to refuse, decline; to hinder, restrain, Num 30:6, Num 30:9,Num 30:12; and hence, the noun means, a holding back, a withdrawal, an alienation; and hence, the idea is, that God sought to be alienated from Job. The Vulgate renders it, “He seeks complaints (querales) against me.” The Septuagint, μέμψιν mempsin - accusation. Umbreit, Feindshaft, enmity. So Gesenius and Noyes. “He counteth me for his enemy.” This is language which Job had used; see Job 19:11.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Complaints. Something similar had indeed come from Job’s lips;…
Complaints. Something similar had indeed come from Job’s lips; (chap. xiv. 17., and xx. 21.) not that he pretended that God sought to find him guilty without cause; but he meant that He treated him as an enemy, for some secret purpose. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain occasions--for hostility; literally, "enmities" (Job 13:24; Job 16:9; Job…
occasions--for hostility; literally, "enmities" (Job 13:24; Job 16:9; Job 19:11; Job 30:21).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 10. Occasions — Rather, enmities, hostilities.
10. Occasions — Rather, enmities, hostilities.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 10. See ch. Job_10:13 seq., Job_13:24, Job_19:11, Job_30:21.
10. See ch. Job_10:13 seq., Job_13:24, Job_19:11, Job_30:21.
he findeth occasions] lit. enmities, i. e. grounds of enmity or hostility; he “findeth” is almost equivalent to He “invents.” Coverdale quaintly, “he hath pyked a quarell agaynst me.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (10) Behold, he findeth occasions against me.—See Job_13:24; Job_13:26-27;…
(10) Behold, he findeth occasions against me.—See Job_13:24; Job_13:26-27; Job_19:11.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Behold, he findeth occasions against me. This charge may…
Behold, he findeth occasions against me. This charge may perhaps be justified by reference to Job"s complaints in Job_7:17-19 and Job_10:3-6; but the exact words are not Job"s. He counteth me for his enemy. Certainly, Job had said this more than ones. (see Job_16:9) But he cannot really have believed it, or his trust in God must have failed. The fact that to the last he clung to God, appealed to him, hoped to receive judgment from him, (Job_31:2, Job_31:6, Job_31:28, Job_31:35-37) is proof sufficient that he knew God was not really alienated from him, but would in the end acknowledge him and vindicate his character.
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Elihu continues quoting what he heard Job say.
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The speaker uses this word here to draw attention to what he says next. AT: "Listen"
He puts my feet in stocks
"Stocks" are wooden blocks a jailer puts around a prisoner's feet to restrict his movement. Job speaks of feeling like he is a prisoner by saying that he is in stocks. AT: "I feel he has made me a prisoner" (See: Metaphor)
my paths
These words refer to where he goes. Here where he goes represents what he does. AT: "everything that I do" (See: Metonymy)
I will answer you
Elihu is speaking to Job.
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adversary
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