Job 33:23
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,”
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“Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:”
King James Version · Public Domain“If there be with him an angel, An interpreter, one among a thousand, To show unto man what is right for him;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“If there is by him a messenger, An interpreter--one of a thousand, To declare for man his uprightness:”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 33:23 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 2:1Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,
- 2 Chronicles 36:15Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.
- Nehemiah 9:33You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.
- Job 9:3If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
- Job 9:33Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.
- Job 11:6and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.
- Job 34:10Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly.
- Job 34:12Indeed, it is true that God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.
- Job 34:32Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’
- Job 35:14How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,
- Job 36:3I get my knowledge from afar, and I will ascribe justice to my Maker.
- Job 36:8And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,
- Job 37:23The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.
- Psalms 94:12Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,
- Psalms 119:75I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
- Ecclesiastes 7:28While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.
- Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
- Lamentations 3:22Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
- Lamentations 3:32Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.
- Lamentations 3:39Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
- Ezekiel 18:25Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
- Daniel 9:14Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.
- Haggai 1:13Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, delivered the message of the LORD to the people: “I am with you,” declares the LORD.
- Malachi 2:7For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.
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