Job 33:17
New International Version
to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride,

New Living Translation
He makes them turn from doing wrong; he keeps them from pride.

English Standard Version
that he may turn man aside from his deed and conceal pride from a man;

Berean Standard Bible
to turn a man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride,

King James Bible
That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

New King James Version
In order to turn man from his deed, And conceal pride from man,

New American Standard Bible
So that He may turn a person away from bad conduct, And keep a man from pride;

NASB 1995
That He may turn man aside from his conduct, And keep man from pride;

NASB 1977
That He may turn man aside from his conduct, And keep man from pride;

Legacy Standard Bible
That He may turn man aside from his conduct, And keep man from pride;

Amplified Bible
That He may turn man aside from his conduct, And keep him from pride;

Christian Standard Bible
in order to turn a person from his actions and suppress the pride of a person.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
in order to turn a person from his actions and suppress his pride.

American Standard Version
That he may withdraw man from his purpose, And hide pride from man;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
To cause a man to pass from his works and to hide the body of a man

Brenton Septuagint Translation
to turn a man from unrighteousness, and he delivers his body from a fall.

Contemporary English Version
God does this to make us turn from sin and pride

Douay-Rheims Bible
That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may deliver him from pride.

English Revised Version
That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[He warns them] to turn away from doing [wrong] and to stop being arrogant.

Good News Translation
God speaks to make them stop their sinning and to save them from becoming proud.

International Standard Version
turning a person from his actions, keeping him from pride,

JPS Tanakh 1917
That men may put away their purpose, And that He may hide pride from man;

Literal Standard Version
To turn aside man [from] doing, | And He conceals pride from man.

Majority Standard Bible
to turn a man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride,

New American Bible
By turning mortals from acting and keeping pride away from a man,

NET Bible
to turn a person from his sin, and to cover a person's pride.

New Revised Standard Version
that he may turn them aside from their deeds, and keep them from pride,

New Heart English Bible
That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

Webster's Bible Translation
That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

World English Bible
that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

Young's Literal Translation
To turn aside man from doing, And pride from man He concealeth.

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Context
Elihu Rebukes Job
16He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings 17to turn a man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride, 18to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.…

Cross References
Job 33:16
He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings

Job 33:18
to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.


Treasury of Scripture

That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

withdraw

Job 17:11
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

Genesis 20:6
And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.

Isaiah 23:9
The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

purpose.

Deuteronomy 8:16
Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

2 Chronicles 32:25
But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

Isaiah 2:11
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

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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














(17) From his purpose.--Rather, That He may witharaw man from carrying out his evil actions, and may remove that pride from man which he secretly cherishes. This is the main point of Elihu's teaching: that the purposes of God are disciplinary, to keep man from the sin which otherwise he would be prone to commit. In this way Job might have been a righteous man, and yet be justly chastened lest he should prove unrighteous.

Verse 17. - That he (i.e. God) may withdraw man from his purpose; literally, from his work, assumed to be a wrongful work. Elihu regards the Divine teaching through visions as intended to elevate and purify men. Sometimes God so works upon them as to make them abandon an evil course on which they had entered. Sometimes his object is to save them from indulgence in an evil temper into which, without his help, they might have fallen. In this latter case he may occasionally hide pride from man. Elihu, perhaps, thinks that Job is unduly proud of his integrity.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
in order to turn
לְ֭הָסִיר (lə·hā·sîr)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 5493: To turn aside

a man
אָדָ֣ם (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being

from wrongdoing
מַעֲשֶׂ֑ה (ma·‘ă·śeh)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4639: An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property

and keep
יְכַסֶּֽה׃ (yə·ḵas·seh)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3680: To plump, fill up hollows, to cover

him from
מִגֶּ֣בֶר (mig·ge·ḇer)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1397: A valiant man, warrior, a person simply

pride,
וְגֵוָ֖ה (wə·ḡê·wāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1466: Exaltation, arrogance


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