The Meaning of Job 33:25 Explained

Job 33:25

KJV: His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:

YLT: Fresher is his flesh than a child's, He returneth to the days of his youth.

Darby: His flesh shall be fresher than in childhood; he shall return to the days of his youth.

ASV: His flesh shall be fresher than a child's; He returneth to the days of his youth.

Discover Job 33:25

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 33:25?

MEANING: What does Job 33:25 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 33:25 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 33:25?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

His flesh  shall be fresher  than a child's:  he shall return  to the days  of his youth: 

What does Job 33:25 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 33:1-33 - The Interpreter
It is not wonderful that Elihu has been mistaken for the Mediator Himself, so helpfully does he interpose between Job and his Maker. He dwells especially on his own likeness to Job in his manhood, and quotes this as the reason why he could specially help him: I also am formed out of the clay. So also our High Priest is man. Elihu takes up Job's words protesting his innocence, and he insists that Job was not right in those protestations, or in the conclusions that he drew from them.
Then follows one of the grandest passages in the book. Elihu tells how God speaks in nature and through conscience, and is often disregarded; and how then he speaks by revelation, opening the ears of men to withdraw them from their purpose. He shows that God often lays a man upon a bed of pain, that He may speak to his heart. Happy is the afflicted if an interpreter stands beside him to point the path to repentance. Finally, broken and penitent, he turns back to God, and sees His face with joy, and sings before men the story of his restoration. Thus Elihu argues that affliction is often sent as discipline to read to man God's deepest truth. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 33

1  Elihu offers himself instead of God to reason with Job
8  He excuses God from giving man an account of his ways, by his greatness
14  God calls man to repentance by visions, by afflictions, and by his ministry
31  He incites Job to attention

What do the individual words in Job 33:25 mean?

Shall be young His flesh like a child's He shall return to the days of his youth
רֻֽטֲפַ֣שׁ בְּשָׂר֣וֹ מִנֹּ֑עַר יָ֝שׁ֗וּב לִימֵ֥י עֲלוּמָֽיו

רֻֽטֲפַ֣שׁ  Shall  be  young 
Parse: Verb, QalPass, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: רֻטֲפַשׁ  
Sense: (Niphal) to grow fresh, be grown fresh.
בְּשָׂר֣וֹ  His  flesh 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: בָּשָׂר  
Sense: flesh.
מִנֹּ֑עַר  like  a  child's 
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, masculine singular
Root: נׄעַר  
Sense: youth, boyhood, early life.
יָ֝שׁ֗וּב  He  shall  return 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: שׁוּב  
Sense: to return, turn back.
לִימֵ֥י  to  the  days 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: יׄום 
Sense: day, time, year.
עֲלוּמָֽיו  of  his  youth 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, third person masculine singular
Root: עֲלוּמִים  
Sense: youth, youthful, vigour.

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