The Meaning of Job 33:3 Explained

Job 33:3

KJV: My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.

YLT: Of the uprightness of my heart are my sayings, And knowledge have my lips clearly spoken.

Darby: My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart, and my lips shall utter knowledge purely.

ASV: My words'shall utter the uprightness of my heart; And that which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.

Discover Job 33:3

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 33:3?

MEANING: What does Job 33:3 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 33:3 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 33:3?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

My words  [shall be of] the uprightness  of my heart:  and my lips  shall utter  knowledge  clearly. 

What does Job 33:3 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 33:3 mean?

Upright [come] from my heart My words and knowledge My lips pure utter
יֹֽשֶׁר־ לִבִּ֥י אֲמָרָ֑י וְדַ֥עַת שְׂ֝פָתַ֗י בָּר֥וּר מִלֵּֽלוּ

יֹֽשֶׁר־  Upright 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: יׄשֶׁר  
Sense: straightness, uprightness.
לִבִּ֥י  [come]  from  my  heart 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: לֵב 
Sense: inner man, mind, will, heart, understanding.
אֲמָרָ֑י  My  words 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, first person common singular
Root: אֵמֶר 
Sense: utterance, speech, word, saying, promise, command.
וְדַ֥עַת  and  knowledge 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: דַּעַת 
Sense: knowledge.
שְׂ֝פָתַ֗י  My  lips 
Parse: Noun, fdc, first person common singular
Root: שָׂפָה  
Sense: lip, language, speech, shore, bank, brink, brim, side, edge, border, binding.
בָּר֥וּר  pure 
Parse: Verb, Qal, QalPassParticiple, masculine singular
Root: בָּרוּר 
Sense: to purify, select, polish, choose, purge, cleanse or make bright, test or prove.
מִלֵּֽלוּ  utter 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: מָלַל 
Sense: to speak, utter, say.

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