I will instruct you in the power of God. I will not conceal the ways of the Almighty.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
- KJV I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
- NKJV “I will teach you about the hand of God; What is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
- NASB “I will instruct you in the power of God; What is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
- NLT I will teach you about God’s power. I will not conceal anything concerning the Almighty.
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Quick answer
Job offers to teach his friends the truth about God's power and dealings. It matters because Job claims to instruct them in what they have misapplied.
Overview
Job promises to teach his friends concerning the hand of God, concealing nothing of God's ways. Ironically, the one they came to correct now becomes their teacher. Job will go on to describe the true fate of the wicked, showing that he understands God's justice even better than they.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Ps 71:17O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
- Isa 8:11For this is what the LORD has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people:
- Job 4:3–4Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
- Job 6:10It still brings me comfort, and joy through unrelenting pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
- Deut 4:5See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
- Acts 20:20I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,
- Job 32:8–10But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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