Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Behold, I am according to thy mouth for God: from clay was I also broken off

New American Standard Bible

“Behold, I belong to God like you;
I too have been formed out of the clay.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

I am just like you before God;
I was also pinched off from a piece of clay.

International Standard Version

Look! As far as God is concerned, I'm just like you are I, too, have been pinched off from a piece of clay.

A Conservative Version

Behold, I am toward God even as thou are. I also am formed out of the clay.

American Standard Version

Behold, I am toward God even as thou art: I also am formed out of the clay.

Amplified


“Behold, I belong to God like you;
I too was formed out of the clay.

Bible in Basic English

See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.

Darby Translation

Behold, before God I am as thou; I also am formed out of the clay.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Look, before God {I am like you}; I myself was also formed from clay.

Modern King James verseion

Behold, I am toward God even as you are; I also am formed out of the clay.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Behold, before God am I, even as thou, for I am fashioned and made even of the same mould.

NET Bible

Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.

New Heart English Bible

Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

The Emphasized Bible

Lo! I am like thyself toward GOD, From clay, have I been nipped off, even I!

Webster

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

World English Bible

Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

Youngs Literal Translation

Lo, I am, according to thy word, for God, From the clay I -- I also, have been formed.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
in God's
אל 
'el 
Usage: 114

קרץ 
Qarats 
Usage: 5

References

Fausets

Job

Morish

Context Readings

Elihu Rebukes Job

5 If thou shalt be able to turn back to me, set in order before me, stand forth. 6 Behold, I am according to thy mouth for God: from clay was I also broken off 7 Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, and my hand shall not be heavy upon thee.

Cross References

Job 4:19

Also those dwelling in houses of clay which their foundation in the dust, being crushed before the moth.

Genesis 2:7

And Jehovah God will form man of the dust from the earth, and will blow into his nostrils the breath of lives, and man shall be for a living soul.

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat food until thy turning back to the earth; for out of it thou wert taken; for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou turn back.

Genesis 30:2

And Jacob's anger will burn at Rachel, and he will say, Am I instead of God, who kept back from thee the fruit of the belly?

Exodus 4:16

And he the word for thee to the people: and being, he shall be to thee for a mouth, and thou shalt be to him for God.

Job 9:32-35

For not a man as I; I shall answer him, we shall come together in judgment

Job 10:9

Remember now, thou didst make me as day; and thou wilt turn me back to dust.

Job 13:3

But I will speak to the Almighty; I shall delight to plead before God.

Job 13:12

Your remembrances being likened to ashes, your backs to backs of clay.

Job 20:22

In the fulness of his abundance it shall be pressed to him: every laboring hand shall come to him.

Job 23:3-4

Who will give, I knew to find him: I will come even to his place.

Job 31:35

Who will give to me hearing to me.? Behold, my sign, the Almighty will answer me, and the man contending with me wrote a book.

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if our earthly house of the tent were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:20

For Christ therefore are we ambassadors, as of God beseeching by us: we pray for the sake of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

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