Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
Parallel translations
- WEB You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.
- BSB You will call, and I will answer; You will desire the work of Your hands.
- NKJV You shall call, and I will answer You; You shall desire the work of Your hands.
- NASB “You will call, and I will answer You; You will long for the work of Your hands.
- NLT You would call and I would answer, and you would yearn for me, your handiwork.
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Quick answer
Job pictures a future when God will call and he will joyfully answer. He imagines God longing for the work of His hands.
Overview
Job envisions God calling and himself answering, with God yearning for 'the work of your hands.' Beneath his grief lies confidence that God still cherishes what He has made. This tender hope that the Creator desires fellowship with His creature is realized in Christ, through whom God restores and delights in His redeemed people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Job 13:22Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
- Ps 138:8The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
- Job 10:3Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
- 1 Pet 4:19Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
- Job 10:8Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
- Job 7:21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
- 1 Jn 2:28And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
- Ps 50:4–5He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
- 1 Th 4:17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
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