Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 33:1 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 1. 1Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
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Role in This Section
Job 33:1 opens the thought unit with the words “Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.” Elihu states “Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words” as one poetic claim in Elihu Invites Job to Answer without Terror.
Read It With
- Job 33:1–33:7
Read Job 33:1 with 33:1–33:7. Read alone, “Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Elihu addresses Job directly, claims sincerity and shared creatureliness, and says his presence need not frighten or crush Job.
Why It Needs Context
Job 33:1 depends on 33:1–33:7; isolating “Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Elihu and “Elihu Invites Job to Answer without Terror.”
Read Job 33:1–7 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 33:1–33:7 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Elihu Invites Job to Answer without Terror.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 1. 1 Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
Verse 2. 2 Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.
Verse 3. 3 My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
Verse 4. 4 The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
Verse 5. 5 If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
Verse 6. 6 Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
Verse 7. 7 Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.
Continue in Context
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Read Job 33:1–33:7 — Elihu Invites Job to Answer without TerrorSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 33:1–33:7, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 33:1–33:7
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